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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But just now he had been recalling her mother under very different associations.
From Wild Wings A Romance of Youth by Margaret Rebecca Piper
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
His subsequent meetings with Sylvia had caused a requickening of all the impressions of his visit to Professor Kelton, and he had been recalling that errand again to-day.
From A Hoosier Chronicle by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
"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
She had been recalling several things and putting them together.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie
