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billmcd
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I don't unnderstand your reference to "present tense". You have used past perfect continuous/progressive and in that usage it is usually followed by a "when/but/however etc." phrase such as "She had been coming to my place........., when I received a phone call that her car was out of gas."
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Sorry I meant I am saying this sentence at present to some one elseI don't unnderstand your reference to "present tense". You have used past perfect continuous/progressive and in that usage it is usually followed by a "when/but/however etc." phrase such as "She had been coming to my place........., when I received a phone call that her car was out of gas."
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