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The boy’s behavior changed after his mother regained custody and family members said he had been misbehaving in school and showing signs of anxiety.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2022

He had been misbehaving in class, and Mr. Hancock described the day she took him aside and said that instead of punishing him, she would make him a student leader.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2011

They started for the telegraph line, but on the way the two men who had been misbehaving requested to be left behind.

From The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Favenc, Ernest

I couldn't make her tell me what Mrs. Upjohn had said, but, picking up a thread here and there, I judged that Charlie had been misbehaving himself somehow.

From Concerning Sally by Hopkins, William John

Only I won't be taken back as if I were a little trapesing general that had been misbehaving herself.

From The Privet Hedge by Buckrose, J. E.