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have been doctoring

  • present perfect progressive of doctor.

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Cubs players treaded lightly on the notion Lackey might have been doctoring the ball.

From Washington Times Oct. 9, 2015

Professor Bettenridge and his accomplice, Webb Nelson, have been doctoring the mines with a powder and an outer shield which dissolves in water.

From Signal in the Dark by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)

Ugly, isn't it?" he went on; "and to think I have been doctoring up these fellows for the last thirty years—saving their lives, sir, by wholesale.

From Rujub, the Juggler by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

“Perhaps your friends have been doctoring him overmuch; but I shall judge when I see him.”

From The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela by Kingston, William Henry Giles