had been safeguarding
- past perfect progressive of safeguard.
Example Sentences
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There must be an end now of this silent reserve, of that air of impenetrability behind which he had been safeguarding his dignity.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph
