recall
verb (used with object)
had been recalling
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past perfect progressiveof recall.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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"And I remember I used to wonder whether I liked it," she thought to herself, with a singular feeling, as if she had been recalling a past state of existence.
From A Venetian June by Anna Fuller
While Mr. Silby was speaking, Duncan had been recalling all the events which had transpired during their flight, and endeavoring to trace, step by step, all that they had done.
From The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives by Allan Pinkerton
"Dinah was far more clever than her books," said an old friend who had been recalling pleasant memories to repeat to me.
From Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations by Mrs. Alexander
She had been recalling several things and putting them together.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie
Evidently, then, it had been last night that I saw Melbourne, and the strange other-life I had been recalling earlier had been the experience in the Chamber of Life.
From The Chamber of Life by Austin Briggs
