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Discover LudwigThe phrase "had been loving" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is the past perfect tense of the verb "to love" and indicates an action that was completed in the past before another past action. It is typically used in conjunction with a past tense verb. Example: She had been loving him since they first met, but it wasn't until last night that she finally confessed her feelings.
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He had no motive to kill Steenkamp, Roux insisted, telling the court the relationship had been "loving".
Capt Francois Moller said that 90% of the messages between them had been loving.
Like millions of women who came before me, and like some of you, or your mothers, sisters, daughters and grandmothers, I was informed earlier this week that the heartbeat of the baby I had been loving and diligently growing inside of me for the past two and half months had stopped.
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She had been loved.
Wayne had been loved, and he was always laughing.
Lauer had been loved by so many; "we" loved him.
Barristers representing the Derby parents told the judge the children had been loved and "happy".
Indeed, as long as there have been bikes, there have been loving odes to the tandem.
Some of these posthumous offerings have been loving, others crass.
Not all manifestations have been loving, mind you.
Democrats everywhere will have been loving it all.
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