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had been twiddling
  • past perfect progressive of twiddle.

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One was twiddling his thumbs very fast, and I suddenly recollected that he had been twiddling his thumbs very fast half an hour ago, when I had first seen him.

From Caught by the Turks by Yeats-Brown, Francis