had been ministering
- past perfect progressive of minister.
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 Musick, John R. (John Roy)
Some of these itinerants came to Bedford, and in the parish church, called 'the steeple-house,' in Bedford town, on the 23d of May, 1656, they met John Bunyan, probably after he had been ministering there.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John
Here a Baptist minister had been ministering to a small and struggling flock in connection with two other churches out in the county.
From Dorothy Page by Hatcher, Eldridge B.
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 Francis, M.E. (Mrs. Francis Blundell)
At that instant one of the younger nurses who had been ministering to the figure upon the bed, lifted up a warning hand.
From A Sheaf of Corn by Mann, Mary E.
