subscribe
verb (used with object)
to pledge, as by signing an agreement, to give or pay (a sum of money) as a contribution, gift, or investment.
had been subscribing
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past perfect progressiveof subscribe.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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In fact, one reader our research team met in Toronto had been subscribing for a decade longer than my mother has been alive.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2018
"Not after we had all paid in our regular dues, and had been subscribing and subscribing for this, that, and the other thing for nearly a year," said I, who was present at the time.
From Amos Kilbright; His Adscititious Experiences by Frank Richard Stockton
The Krupp interests, which had been subscribing 400,000 marks annually to this agency, subscribed the same amount to the reorganised company.
From Germany, The Next Republic? by Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman
