reckon
verb (used with object)
to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
had been reckoning
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past perfect progressiveof reckon.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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Evidently they had been reckoning their position and nervously gauging their gasoline.
From Time Magazine Archive
The master's son had been reckoning on seeing her, and he danced with no one else, and never took his eyes off her.
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
These patriotic young gentlemen were a good deal disconcerted next morning to find that they had been reckoning without their host.
From The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed
He had been reckoning on that; he had seen her steadily failing, and knew that she could not go on indefinitely under such privations.
From The Heart of Thunder Mountain by Anton Otto Fischer
But we had been reckoning without our hosts.
From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood
