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have been believing

  • present perfect progressive of believe.

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Evidently the mutineers have been believing us guilty of the disappearance of the second mate, just as we have been believing them guilty of the disappearance of the first mate. 

From The Mutiny of the Elsinore by London, Jack

To think that I have been believing all this time that in his mission with Morhange, Saint-Avit was particularly concerned in scientific observations.

From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre

"That is what I believe," said he, "and I have been believing it."

From Kate Bonnet The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter by Stockton, Frank Richard

Husband, depend upon it we have been believing a great lie.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah

All summer long I have been trying to remember something; something untrue that you have been believing, some falsehood for which I was responsible.

From Story of Waitstill Baxter by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith