had been disentangling
- past perfect progressive of disentangle.
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For three months the seven envoys of Austria, Prussia, Russia, France, Bavaria, Zweibrucken, and Saxony, had been disentangling the threads of the Bavarian succession.
From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)