recur
verb (used without object)
to occur again, as an event, experience, etc.
had been recurring
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past perfect progressiveof recur.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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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 P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
I suppose it was the fact that he had come straight from a symposium on transmigration that made little Bowles imagine he had been recurring to a previous existence.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 by Various
He voiced a question which had been recurring in his mind for a year.
From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
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 Edward Bellamy
