Example Sentences

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They had been restoring their boat for the last two years, the post continued.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

Two cars he had been restoring were scorched husks.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2024

But the Pletchers were used to working on boats�they were wooden boat fanatics who had been restoring old models for years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our house was an old farmhouse that my parents had been restoring, room by room.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech

The theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which Christopher Rich had been restoring, his son, John Rich, was allowed to open on230 the 18th of December, 1714.

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by Dawson, William Francis