had been recurring
- past perfect progressive of recur.
Example Sentences
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Lately these troubled moods had been recurring more frequently.
From Time Magazine Archive
The name Scobell had been recurring like a leit-motif in Mr. Crump's conversation.
From The Prince and Betty by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
In the years during which his passion for her had been cooling into a staid friendship, his imagination had been recurring with constantly increasing fondness and a dreamy passion to the memory of her girlhood.
From A Summer Evening's Dream 1898 by Bellamy, Edward
He voiced a question which had been recurring in his mind for a year.
From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
In the years during which his passion for her had been cooling into a staid friendship his imagination had been recurring with constantly increasing fondness and a dreamy passion to the memory of her girlhood.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
