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Here is a short story using the past perfect continuous tense.

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Listen as I read so you can see how they are used in real life conversation.

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After I'm done make sure you understand all the grammar and read aloud yourself so that you can work

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on your own fluency and pronunciation.

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It seemed to me that your brother was depressed a year ago.

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Yeah he'd been feeling down since he lost his job.

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Could you just imagine that he got a perfect job at one startup company.

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The launch was going smoothly and then seven months later they lost the funding so at the time the company

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lost the funding.

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Your brother had been working there for seven months.

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Correct.

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We know that it seemed like such a short period of time for some people but my brother had been dreaming

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about this amazing job opportunity for years.

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Yeah and the standard.