estaban fastidiando
-they/you were annoying
Imperfecto progresivo para el sujetoellos/ellas/ustedesdel verbofastidiar.

fastidiar

Algunos Gobiernos, quizá el italiano, el irlandés y, sin duda, algunos escandinavos, lo estaban fastidiando y frenando todo.
Some governments – perhaps the Italians, the Irish, and certainly some of the Scandinavian ones – were putting a spanner in the works and stalling on this.
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