Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had [be] [v-ing] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 2 | ‘ Conference Report ’ carried an electric charge which had been lacking from ‘ The World at One ’ . |
| 3 | A counsellor at the Russian embassy in Paris , Viktor Oshchenko , an acknowledged member of Russia 's foreign intelligence service who had been missing from his posting since July 27 , appeared in London on Aug. 13 together with his wife and daughter . |
| 4 | Last night he had been suffering from jet lag ; now he seemed to be fully recovered , and power flowed from him in waves . |
| 5 | Before the last Test it seemed that Gooch would return home , annoyed at an article written about his South African connections by Lester Bird , the Deputy Prime Minister of Antigua , and tired of the hostile receptions he had been getting from press and public . |
| 6 | Evidence of a psychologist was heard on the voir dire , the essence of whose testimony was that when B had made the admissions he had been suffering from a relatively mild form of paranoid psychosis , the effect of which was that , under the stress of questioning , he would have felt very threatened , been likely to tell lies , and to make untrue admissions . |
| 7 | The look of strain which had been missing from Jenny 's face most of the morning returned . |
| 8 | It was particularly disappointing as the Scots had shown signs of a refreshing midfield arrogance which had been missing from many of their recent displays . |
| 9 | When they reached the Manor the children who had been watching from the window ran to greet Tamar . |
| 10 | Li Shai Tung 's hands rested lightly on the table 's edge , the now-empty bowl he had been eating from placed to one side , out of his way . |
| 11 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |