had been reserving
- past perfect progressive of reserve.
Example Sentences
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Being thus baffled, he determined to bring in here a point which he had been reserving to use later, should Milton Hibbard decide to take up the question of Peter Junior’s lameness.
From The Eye of Dread by Erskine, Payne
But when Madame de Treymes, at his approach, let him see that it was for him she had been reserving herself, he felt that so graceful an impulse needed no special explanation.
From Madame De Treymes by Wharton, Edith
More than this he would not do, but he brought out something 311 he had been reserving with pride, a few little nuggets of gold.
From The Eye of Dread by Erskine, Payne
She saw that he had been reserving this for a last shot at her, that he realized she had stolen his own ammunition and appropriated it to herself.
From Constance Dunlap by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
But alas! one story is good until another is told, and St. Githa's had been reserving a trump card for the occasion.
From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Salmon, Balliol
