had been persuading
- past perfect progressive of persuade.
Example Sentences
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Bunni, who helped gather witnesses to testify in these court cases, says one of his biggest challenges had been persuading frightened Syrians to go public.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2022
His top priority had been persuading state and city leaders to fund the agency’s roughly $29 billion capital spending plan to pay for the system’s maintenance and expansion.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2017
For fifty years he had been persuading himself that he was a righteous man, and the conviction was now so firmly impressed upon his very soul that nothing could ever shake it.
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
He had been persuading himself that he loved her, and he had found keen joy in the misery into which he had worked himself, thinking that there was something ideal and noble in his attitude.
From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith
For ages Joan had been persuading him to go with her, and the old captain to go with him—the latter angry and pulling him, the former weeping and imploring.
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by MacDonald, George
