Indicative Present (simple): Bruno Delavigne always backgrounds his Montmartre childhood whenever he pitches a new fragrance to investors at the Delavigne Corporation.
Indicative Present progressive / continuous: The CEO is backgrounding the history of Xavier's tiny shop for a journalist writing a profile on the Delavigne Corporation's rise to the top.
Indicative Past (simple): Horatio Oléré backgrounded the story of Bruno's nose accident for the new San Francisco staff during their first team meeting.
Indicative Past progressive / continuous: Bruno was backgrounding his fragrance fire prevention campaign for a group of environmental activists when his phone rang — it was the Pamplona bull-running committee.
Indicative Present perfect (simple): The noseless perfumer has backgrounded his grandfather Xavier's influence so thoroughly in every interview that journalists now quote Xavier more than Bruno himself.
Indicative Present perfect progressive / continuous: Delavigne has been backgrounding the science of fragrance safety to charity donors for years, turning dry chemistry into compelling storytelling.
Indicative Past perfect: By the time Bruno took the stage in San Francisco, Horatio had already backgrounded the audience on the tragic explosion that claimed Xavier's life.
Indicative Past perfect progressive / continuous: The Delavigne Corporation communications team had been backgrounding reporters on Bruno's surfing hobby for weeks before the viral beach photo finally dropped.
Indicative Future: The grandson of Xavier will background his entire personal history — Montmartre, the accident, the nose — in the opening chapter of his long-awaited memoir.
Indicative Future progressive / continuous: While the bulls are charging through Pamplona, Bruno will be backgrounding a documentary crew on exactly why a noseless perfumer keeps showing up there every year.
Indicative Future perfect: By the time the Delavigne Corporation gala ends, the perfumer will have backgrounded every guest on the environmental causes he holds dear.
Indicative Future perfect progressive / continuous: By next spring, Bruno will have been backgrounding new hires on fragrance fire prevention for a full decade — a ritual Horatio calls 'the most important orientation in the beauty industry.'
Conditional Simple: Bruno would background his surf instructor on Delavigne Corporation history if only the waves gave them a moment's peace.
Conditional Progressive: Were it not for the chaos of the running of the bulls, the Montmartre kid would be backgrounding fellow runners on fragrance fire prevention right now.
Conditional Perfect: The perfumer would have backgrounded the board of directors on his environmental vision sooner if the quarterly losses hadn't dominated every meeting.
Conditional Perfect progressive: Without his lost sense of smell, Bruno would have been backgrounding the world's top noses on Xavier's techniques rather than reinventing the art from scratch.
Imperative Imperative: «Background the new interns on the Pamplona tradition before they read about it online and think I've lost my mind,» Bruno tells Horatio with a straight face.
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