had been misconducting
- past perfect progressive of misconduct.
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They followed because, learning that James was going to Perth, they guessed that he intended to apprehend the Master of Oliphant, who had been misconducting himself in Angus.
From James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Lang, Andrew
