render
verb (used with object)
to cause to be or become; make.
had been rendering
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past perfect progressiveof render.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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Several privates who had been rendering what assistance they could, moved aside on the approach of their superior officers.
From I Spy by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
Roderick thanked His Excellency for entrusting to him this task which he regarded as the crowning act of the services which he had been rendering the cause of his country in the past two days.
From The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 by John Lespérance
Later I found that the tune they played and to which we had been rendering the formal compliment was the air of a popular song.
From Average Americans by Theodore Roosevelt
"That is better!" said Margaret, contemplating a butterfly of the penwiper class, whose constitution her dexterous needle had been rendering less rickety than Blanche had left it.
From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge
