had been backspacing

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of backspace.
  backspace

  verb (used without object)

  to shift the carriage or typing element of a typewriter one space backward by depressing a special key.

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