had been rearing

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of rear.
  rear

  noun

  the back of something, as distinguished from the front.

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had been rearing

Soon after both families discovered that they had been rearing the wrong children, they arranged to meet, and they continued to stay in contact in the following days, according to the lawsuit.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2021

Bokamper and Stabler were talking about Bokamper's horse, which had been rearing up in practice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scarcely, therefore, will this gentleman have quitted the colony, before the whole of the superstructure which he had been rearing will have been pulled down, and another of a different description commenced in its stead.

From Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by William Charles Wentworth

His charitable kindness had been rearing a prime comfort for himself.

From Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

There was neither fear nor shame in her words; it was the outspoken instinct of the animal he had been rearing; he was convinced and appalled by it.

From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte

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