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had been tasting
  • past perfect progressive of taste.

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Off the track Honda had been tasting success, too.

From Reuters • Sep. 7, 2017

Off the track Honda had been tasting success, too.

From Reuters • Sep. 7, 2017

Even after a wine-and-food pairing event when I had been tasting crab all day long, the piece de resistance at the judges' banquet was... crabmeat on a bed of eggwhite custard.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2012

While he had been tasting the ways of the West, his country had roiled through the reversals of perestroika.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course you were not entirely yourself, you had been tasting some of the bitter wormy apples, that hung on the tree of knowledge, and the cramps which ensued appeared unendurable.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul