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had been seeming
  • past perfect progressive of seem.

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Everything had been seeming to go against her and here, all of a sudden, everything had turned out her way.

From Missy by Gatlin, Dana

Out there at the front, over here in hospital, life had been seeming so—as it were—heroic; and yet it held such mean and murky depths as well!

From Tatterdemalion by Galsworthy, John

They sat about the table and talked, and he led them all back to the mountains which had been seeming so far away.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Burnett, Frances Hodgson