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have been scaring

  • present perfect progressive of scare.

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Louise Church, 47, said she visits the area regularly from her home in Swansea, and has intervened several times when people have been scaring the ponies.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2023

Both Agnew and Patterson already have been scaring opposing kick-coverage units for years.

From Washington Post Oct. 29, 2021

But he soon realized that the Virginia name might have been scaring off the very people his pitch was intended for.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Why, gentlemen, we have been scaring ourselves at a puff of powder smoke.

From Fitz the Filibuster by Piffard, Harold

“Those guys have been scaring you some, I guess,” he remarked.

From The Black Box by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)