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has been upbraiding
  • present perfect progressive of upbraid (3rd person singular).

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Here is one passage, for example, the most likable utterance of Knox's that I can quote:- Mrs Locke has been upbraiding him as a bad correspondent.

From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Here is one passage, for example, the most likable utterance of Knox’s that I can quote:—Mrs. Locke has been upbraiding him as a bad correspondent.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis