remind
verb (used with object)
to cause (a person) to remember; cause (a person) to think (of someone or something).
had been reminding
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past perfect progressiveof remind.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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But Truc offers a wry smile when asked whether, just maybe, Hanoi had been reminding him who's boss.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just that morning her father had been reminding her that giant sequoias couldn’t burn.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Throughout the day, indeed, the Free Staters themselves had been reminding him of these dangers.
From History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office
For months he had been reminding her that his name was Percival.
From The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors by Elizabeth Garver Jordan
True enough, during our short ride he had been reminding me of one of a pair of cross-talk comedians I had once seen in a music-hall.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
