had been telephoning
- past perfect progressive of telephone.
Example Sentences
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For weeks Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, national economics chief Robert Rubin and Magaziner had been telephoning corporate CEOs, urging them to stay on the fence and "keep your powder dry."
From Time Magazine Archive
Nan lay upon the couch in her room, resting after her exertions, when Grace, who had been telephoning to Walter, came in bursting with news.
From Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves by Carr, Annie Roe
And then to Edith: "Did you tell my husband I had been telephoning to Lamhorn?"
From The Turmoil, a novel by Tarkington, Booth
The chances were that whoever Laverto had been telephoning to had already been here and gone.
From Doors of the Night by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
She found at home that he had been telephoning to her.
From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert
