15 Sentences in Past Perfect Continuous Tense!
- My friend and I had been emailing each other every week since we graduated from college until we ran into each other at a bookstore.
- Had the children been sleeping the entire time?
- They hadn’t been sleeping.
- I wish you had been there last night.
- I’m glad you had been able to be here tonight.
- It seemed as if he had been crying, but she couldn’t tell for sure.
- I had never realized that they had been talking about me the whole time.
- He hadn’t been able to go to college because he needed to get a full-time job.
- She said she had been studying for more than eight hours, but I didn’t believe her.
- It was almost 4:00 when we had been waiting for her to come.
- I wouldn’t have gone to the party if they hadn’t been my friends.
- She said she had been working in the garden all afternoon, but when we got home we saw that she was lying on a lounge chair reading a book.
- We had been surprised because it had been raining all day and yet, at 10:00 it was still sunny and clear.
- My grandma had been swimming in the ocean when she saw a ship sinking nearby.
- He said he hadn’t been tired, but we knew he was lying because we could see how exhausted he looked.
