Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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I didn’t take my phone up to do the class photo, but I know some other people were, they were videoing, and I’m like, “Oh darn, I wish that I took the phone up.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
The trade union's annual conference heard that more patients were videoing their procedures on mobile phones, often without asking permission.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2025
He said that, when he raised his suspicions and put forward potential reasons why she might have made up the allegations, she said: "Because they were videoing me, I felt embarrassed and insulted."
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2019
We were videoing every show at one time and looking at ourselves and thinking, 'Who's going to be the group idiot tonight?
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2012
