view
noun
an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
had been viewing
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past perfect progressiveof view.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 Ghazali had been viewing pro-Hezbollah material before his family was killed, Runyan said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 30, 2026
“Facebook’s practices don’t bear up to close, informed scrutiny nearly as well as they look from the 30,000ft view, which is how people had been viewing Facebook previously.”
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2018
He also told the court that he had been viewing the star-filled sky moments before the incident, as he had a passion for star-gazing.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2017
Because when I first told Mrs. Janssen that I would find Mirjam, I had been viewing her as a discrete puzzle that I could try to solve.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
They had been viewing the body and the scene of the crime, but as they filed back into their seats, I noted that they seemed anything but depressed.
From The Gloved Hand by Burton Egbert Stevenson
