relate
verb (used with object)
to tell; give an account of (an event, circumstance, etc.).
had been relating
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past perfect progressiveof relate.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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In a few moments he emerged, and I saw his head distinctly on the crest of a wave, and I recognised in the unfortunate man the sailor who shortly before had been relating his dream.
From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Thomas Herbert Darlow
And a very startled countenance it must have been, for in that fraction of time I knew that she had heard all that Rodenard had been relating.
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini
"I didn't realize how much this Boy Scout affair was going to do for you," observed the captain that night at the supper table, when Jerry and Fred had been relating their new accomplishments.
From The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Gordon Stuart
His mind, still absorbed in the events which he had been relating, groped backward.
From The Mystery by Stewart Edward White
A teacher had been relating to his class the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, and he asked: “Now, which would you rather be, boys, the rich man or Lazarus?”
From Sowing and Reaping by Dwight Lyman Moody
