submit
verb (used with object)
to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
had been submitting
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past perfect progressiveof submit.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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In January 2023, she was told she would face disciplinary proceedings, with the firm claiming she had been submitting hours worked under an incorrect pay level, among other things.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
Stiles said that members playing at other clubs had been submitting scores for O.J. that were being entered on the computer.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 2, 2020
Max Gomberg, the water board's senior staff scientist, said Wednesday that some water agencies had been submitting outdated population numbers to the board.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2015
Photograph: Contrasto/eyevine While studying at Smith College in Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath had been submitting assignments to Mademoiselle magazine and secured one of 20 month-long placements starting in June 1953.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 2, 2013
Now Onesimus, in the very act of taking to flight, showed that he had been submitting to servitude against his will, and that the house of his owner had previously been a prison to him.
From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman
