remember
verb (used with object)
to recall to the mind by an act or effort of memory; think of again.
had been remembering
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past perfect progressiveof remember.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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I laughed, but I, too, had been remembering that other election night, warm with Zach in the North Woods.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2012
She realized that this was the image of her father that she had been remembering.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2012
I knew now that he had been remembering what it was like when he had been forced to go far away from home.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
He had been remembering all the words of the only conversation which he had held with his hero.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
That Saturday night he took the chain off the piano strings and played something he had been remembering and practicing in the morning, something called “Moonlight,” a piece by Beethoven, Cotton Eye thought.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
