Example Sentences

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The poor guy has been rubbing you the wrong way ever since while trying to recreate that magic touch.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2012

They are red because he has been rubbing them and rubbing them and rubbing them.

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2012

Don't forget to ask the bailiff if it is true that he has been rubbing his knee-joints with fat every night the whole summer through.

From Modern Icelandic Plays Eyvind of the Hills; The Hraun Farm by Schanche, Henninge Krohn

Presently, without turning round, he said: "I suppose she has been rubbing it in about Lola Brandt?"

From Simon the Jester by Locke, William John

"A big stag has been rubbing his horns here within a day or two, Miss Jelliffe," the doctor told me.

From Sweetapple Cove by Van Schaick, George