scold
verb (used with object)
had been scolding
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past perfect progressiveof scold.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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For years U.S. advisers had been scolding the Turkish government for trying to expand too far too fast and warning the Turks that they were scaring investors away.
From Time Magazine Archive
All morning my mother had been scolding me, telling me to keep still, warning me that I must make no noise.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
"You really look as though I had been scolding, instead of praising you."
From Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley
You were saying that you had been scolding about me yesterday for two hours.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
Permit me to be your cicerone over Le Bocage, instead of Miss Edna here, who looks as if she had been scolding you.
From St. Elmo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
