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And she had been planting seeds in her own music.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2015

A mile or so away, field workers had been planting palm seedlings where he and his fellow villagers used to grow crops like rice, cassava, and vegetables.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2015

Top National Security Council officials had been planting the seeds for such an exchange with months of behind-the-scenes talks, using Arab monarchs, Iranian exiles and former U.S. diplomats to clandestinely ferry messages.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2013

Pinkerton had been planting "shop operatives" in factories to report to employers conditions among employes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The girls, meanwhile, had been planting the seeds of Canterbury bells and foxgloves in flats.

From Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)