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have been expiating
  • present perfect progressive of expiate.

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"Oh, it is here you are!" said Agincourt, entering; "and Charley and I have been just speculating whether you might not have been expiating some of your transgressions in an Austrian jail."

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James