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Past Perfect Continuous

Subject + had been + V ing

Past Perfect Continuous Timeline

Affirmative form:

John had been working there for a long time.

Negative form:

John hadn’t been working there for a long time.

Question form:

Had John been working there for a long time.

The past perfect continuous tense is used to talk about longer situations that continued up to the moment in the past we are talking about.

For example: "By the time I left England we had been living in Bristol for five years."

"Her back was sore because she had been sitting at the computer all day."

It is also used to say how long something went on for, up to a time in the past.

For example: We apologised because we had kept them waiting for 3 hours.

We apologized because we had kept them waiting since lunchtime.

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