qualify
verb (used with object)
to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent.
had been qualifying
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past perfect progressiveof qualify.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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His eldest son, an estimable young man, who had worked at Christ Church as if he had been qualifying for a statesman or a don, died of typhoid-fever before the birth of his boy.
From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Events had been qualifying Cromwell more and more for the task.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson
She had been qualifying as a hospital nurse, with the view of joining Miss Nightingale's staff at Scutari.
From Bluebell A Novel by Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
