| Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before. |
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| Much to her credit, no amount of upbraiding or name-calling has moved her an iota. |
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| Her mother was far more critical than her father, constantly upbraiding her youngest daughter for the intensity and sensitivity she showed. |
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| It is not unusual to see a small boy upbraiding his own mother for some act that shows a lack of modesty. |
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| Elissa scolded him, calling him a coward, and upbraiding him for not showing backbone. |
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| Her manager is forever pressurising her into pushing banking products at customers and upbraiding her if she doesn't reach the expected quota. |
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| At the weekend, her only son, John Hancock, 36, went public, upbraiding his mother for failing to provide security for her family. |
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| It was the spring before the World Cup in Spain and a man from Madrid sitting behind him joined me in upbraiding him for his behaviour, but my father was having none of it. |
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| He pitched into her recklessly, upbraiding her now for her shiftlessness. |
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| Perhaps we should pause before upbraiding celebs for banking millions for a couple of days' work. |
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| Vying for the Whig nomination, he then wrote an ornery biography of his rival, upbraiding him for having traded his coonskin cap for a swankier hat. |
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| Bahrain's Western allies, in particular the Americans, whose Fifth Fleet is based on the state's coast, have little appetite for upbraiding the government. |
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| The former chancellor was on the radio upbraiding the Governor of the Bank of England for having dared to suggest that EU membership has made the UK economy more dynamic. |
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| I was once told by someone who would know that MI6's internal correspondence was overwhelmingly made up of one spy upbraiding another for failing to send him form A3794 in triplicate. |
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| The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. |
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