had been immobilizing

• 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 immobilize.
  immobilize

  verb (used with object)

  to make immobile or immovable; fix in place.

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