had been overthrowing
- past perfect progressive of overthrow.
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He had really a purpose in all the horrors he had perpetrated, namely, to clear the way for restoring the old government at Rome, which Marius and his Italians had been overthrowing.
From Young Folks' History of Rome by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
