request
noun
the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition.
had been requesting
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past perfect progressiveof request.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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He said what happened to the levee in Pajaro could have been prevented had resources been provided to the community to rebuild the levee — something it had been requesting since the 1960s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
At the time, the agency had been requesting Direct Hiring Authority for over two years.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2022
Baker's family had been requesting her induction since 2013, but only the president can approve entrants to the monument.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2021
The Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV, the local ABC affiliate, had been requesting more information on the case for months but had only recently obtained police documents and video, The American-Statesman reported.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2020
Fixlein had not long ago, among the rubbish of the church letter-room, stumbled on a paper wherein the Geographer had been requesting special information about the statistics of the village.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
