had been transfixing

• 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 transfix.
  transfix

  verb (used with object)

  to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.

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