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We use the past perfect continuous to describe an action or situation that was happening over a period of time up to another past event or point in time. It is often used to give background ...
We were sitting in the blind that Wanderobo hunters had built of twigs and branches at the edge of the salt-lick when we heard the truck coming. (Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway) Hemingway did ...