had been pestering
- past perfect progressive of pester.
Example Sentences
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Davide Ancelotti had been pestering his father, Carlo, to make one particular substitution.
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
She went with one of her two teenage daughters, who had been pestering her for days to let her attend a protest.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2020
According to Liang, however, Ren had been pestering him for weeks because she thought he had a new girlfriend.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2018
Then in 2012, a fellow unit member was organizing a reunion and Johns had been pestering him to find Chalmers.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2016
The creditors now hired an attorney named George B. Chamberlin, counsel for Chicago’s Lafayette Collection Agency, who had been pestering Holmes ever since he failed to pay the furnace company for improving his kiln.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
