Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had been [v-ing] from " in BNC.
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1 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |
2 | But now , when her mind travelled back , it was clear from the young man 's behaviour and some of the comments he had made that she had been suffering from myopia . |
3 | If this went on much longer , the real Robert Wilson might emerge — that awful , jelly-like creature that he had been hiding from the world for the last twenty-four years . |
4 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
5 | The strain of trying to do everything himself was taking a toll ; after one almost incoherent letter he explained that he had been working from 8 a.m. until midnight , had not eaten and so ‘ was thoroughly depressed and vague ’ . |
6 | At last the Barracks loomed into sight , and if anyone had been peeping from the window at that unsociable hour , they might have been hard put to distinguish which was the boy and which the shadow . |
7 | FitzAlan would only snap at her anyway , as he had been doing from the minute they had risen in the half-light of a chilly grey dawn . |