minister
noun
a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy; pastor.
had been ministering
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past perfect progressiveof minister.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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At this Morgianna, who had been ministering to the wounded, entered and said: "Are they not enemies?"
From Sustained honor The Age of Liberty Established by John R. (John Roy) Musick
"That was the trouble," explained Mrs. Watson, who had been ministering to Grace, "she seemed just wild to get out in the rain."
From The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem by Laura Lee Hope
But for over thirty years he had been ministering most wisely to the ills of the soul as well as of the body.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
My hands had suffered by contact with the briars, and I had been ministering to them with my handkerchief; but I fell back upon the slope in my astonishment at this colloquy.
From The Siege of the Seven Suitors by Meredith Nicholson
When the farmer came down half-an-hour later, his wife emerged from the shed in the neighbourhood of the pig-styes, where she had been ministering to the wants of two motherless little pigs.
From North, South and over the Sea by M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell) Francis
