dive
verb (used without object)
to plunge into water, especially headfirst.
had been diving
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past perfect progressiveof dive.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Two men had been diving for golf balls in the lake, but emergency services were called when only one man resurfaced, BBC News NI understands.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2021
Equipped with a dry sense of humour and a passing physical resemblance to Hollywood tough guy Vin Diesel, Paakkarinen had been diving longer than any of the others.
From BBC ● May 8, 2016
He had been diving into the deep end of the swimming pool since he was eighteen months old.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
I had heard that another free-lance test pilot like myself had recently jumped out of a ship he had been diving.
From Test Pilot by Jimmy Collins
By midnight I had been diving so much that I decided to get a charge on the batteries before dawn; I also wanted to be up at 1 a.m. to make my position report.
From The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne by Sir Stephen King-Hall
