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You have been scolding me for the last half-hour because I would not congratulate you on this new friend that your husband has made, and now you are going to begin it all over again.

From Framley Parsonage by Trollope, Anthony

I have been scolding him to such a degree, my dear Catherine, you would be quite amazed.

From Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane

You have been scolding about that all the afternoon.”

From Lola by Davis, Owen

There should have been scolding and punishment, no doubt, but Charling found none.

From The Literary Sense by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

I find I have been scolding Cawthorn without a cause, as I found two parcels with two letters from you on my return to Malta.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle