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had been patterning
  • past perfect progressive of pattern.

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Quietly he had been patterning himself upon that master artist, Perkins, who for some years had easily held the championship for the district.

From Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail by Connor, Ralph