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Discover LudwigThe phrase "had been digging" is correct and usable in written English.
It is the past perfect progressive form of the verb "dig," and it is used to talk about an action that was ongoing in the past before another past action or event. Example: John had been digging in the garden for an hour before it started raining.
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While I had been digging into his past, Cesar had focussed on his future.
Posters had been digging deep into Minecraft: Lava, glass and towers of doom?
The dead had been recovered that morning after the army had been digging for three days.
But some of the others, before fleeing, pocketed a few of the diamonds they had been digging for UNITA.
National Grid, which supplies natural gas on Staten Island, had been digging in the area last week, Ms. Padilla said.
He had been digging into the connections between Italian mafia organizations and Slovak oligarchs and government officials.
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"It looked like it had been dug up".
The navigation lock had been dug beside this monument.
The grave had been dug earlier," he said.
The hole that had been dug was the fourth in a series of tiny graves.
"The graves had been dug a day before the shootings," Likhachev recalled.
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