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had been travelling

  • past perfect progressive
    of travel.
    travel
    verb (used without object)
    to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey.

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Nusrat Osman, 47, was seized at around 12:30 local time on Friday by four men who had been travelling in a grey Nissan Dualis, according to a police statement.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Belfast Coastguard received a distress call from the boat, which had been travelling from Oban in Scotland to Portugal.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Chitra Bahadur Nepali was looking for his nephew Yubraj Sewak, a driver who had been travelling towards the worst-affected Rasuwa district before contact was lost.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Edward Killiwick had been travelling back from a friend's birthday party with his partner Julie, on the flight from Dusseldorf in Germany on 6 July.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

They had been travelling non-stop for forty-one hours.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel