tape
noun
a strip of cloth, paper, or plastic with an adhesive surface, used for sealing, binding, or attaching items together; adhesive tape or masking tape.
had been taping
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past perfect progressiveof tape.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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But Scott-Railton, who had found the request for the meeting suspicious, had been taping the Black Cube agent the entire time—and he’d brought his own backup.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
She remembers one time during a taekwondo tournament in Olney, when a pack of girls in tutus and leotards who had been taping a music video nearby entered the gym.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2018
Federal authorities, who had been taping Blagojevich's conversations with aides, arrested him in December 2009, before he could complete the crime, prosecutors have argued.
From Reuters ● Dec. 7, 2011
It was Friday night, July 13, when Marc Lackritz found out that Richard Nixon had been taping all of his conversations in the Oval Office.
From Slate
