prosecute
had been prosecuting
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past perfect progressiveof prosecute.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He had been prosecuting the works of the siege with great vigor for two months.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Various (magazine) Harper
In the meantime Mr. Redmain had been prosecuting certain inquiries he had some time ago begun, and another quite new one besides.
From Mary Marston by George MacDonald
His sense of the useless result to which the search he had been prosecuting had led him, thus far, seemed to have robbed him of half his energy already.
From Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins
Especially he had been prosecuting those speculations in the science of politics which had fascinated him since his student days at Oxford.
From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson
There was no suggestion made that Congress should assume the completion of the Monument; the Society were to continue actively in the work they had been prosecuting.
From History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society by Frederick Loviad Harvey
