had been snagging

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of snag.
  snag

  noun

  a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.

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