renovate
verb (used with object)
to restore to good condition; make new or as if new again; repair.
had been renovating
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past perfect progressiveof renovate.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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It had been shut since early March and Oreva group, the firm contracted to maintain and operate the bridge since 2008, had been renovating it.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2022
It was a house she and her boyfriend had been renovating, and the two were asleep when a fire broke out in the attic and an upper floor.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021
A neighbor, Steve Langlois, told NBCBoston the couple had been renovating their home in what is usually a quiet neighborhood.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2020
Studholme was on her way to visit a couple who had been renovating a house in Queen’s Park for almost a year.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 11, 2019
Two new owners, Brian Stapleton and Dieter Seelig, had been renovating its East Village funk for a year, trying to induce patrons to stop and have a beer, anything.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2013
