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had been staining
  • past perfect progressive of stain.

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Walter," he exclaimed, laying aside the last of the slides which he had been staining and looking at intently through the microscope, "that stuff on the gelatine is entirely harmless.

From The War Terror by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)