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had been hindering
  • past perfect progressive of hinder.

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“I needed to get out of the place where I was, and this had been hindering me,” Ms. Jones said.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2021

It seemed that by delaying them we had been hindering the day's work of the entire Home Forces.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 12, 1917 by Various