had been picturing
- past perfect progressive of picture.
Example Sentences
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When I finished reading, I realized that what I had been picturing was all wrong: I had been imagining many, many actresses crammed on stage, when, actually, there was only ever one.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2014
The poor bird had been picturing all the fights —almost certainly picturing them quite wrong: nourishing a starved heart on secondhand accounts in secret: wondering whose token was in the place of honour today.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Like any boy his age, his head was full of dreams of glory; no doubt he had been picturing the prowess he would display at Deepwood Motte.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Rose-Ellen had been picturing a village of huts like those at the bogs, or bright-papered shacks like the oystershuckers'.
From Across the Fruited Plain by Means, Florence Crannell
I could now look upon her, without fear of that possibly perilous future I had been picturing to myself.
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne
