had been spooning
- past perfect progressive of spoon.
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Billy Pilgrim had a boiling case of heartburn, since he had been spooning malt syrup all day long at work.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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They had been hidden in haste by persons who had been spooning syrup, who had heard somebody else coming.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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