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had been entrusting

  • past perfect progressive
    of entrust.
    entrust
    verb (used with object)
    to charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust.

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Sir Isaac had been entrusting his managers with increased responsibility and making things ready for the flotation of a company that would take the whole network of enterprises off his hands.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells