had been driving
- past perfect progressive of drive.
Example Sentences
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Willetts, who handed himself into police two days after the crash, had been driving the wrong way down a one-way street at the time.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Another investigator would tell the trial that his calculations show Abubakr Ben Yousef had been driving faster than 63mph at the time of the impact.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
They each had been driving to Grossman’s lakeside home when the accident occurred.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
I had been driving west through downtown and stopped in Chinatown to wait out the morning congestion in a new café that used to be an old bistro.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an eternity of cloud and wind.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
