had been uppercutting

• 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 uppercut.
  uppercut

  noun

  a swinging blow directed upward, as to an adversary's chin.

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