Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latterly , Lima has been receiving more migrants from the poorest and remotest departments . |
| 2 | The Cabinet outcast managed to upstage Kenneth Baker , the Conservative party chairman , who has been taking acting lessons from Kenneth Branagh . |
| 3 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 4 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 5 | The golfing world has been expecting great things from Norman for years . |
| 6 | One evening , after he 'd been answering more questions from Coombs and Beeding , Quigley came into my room when I was doing my homework . |
| 7 | The Golf Information Centre telephonists , recently trained in passable French , had been taking advanced bookings from around the world . |
| 8 | Less innocent were the scandals such as that exposed in 1916 of Hospital 27 , where a crooked doctor had been providing bogus discharges from the army at several thousand francs a time . |
| 9 | In Act Five , Father Dooley , who had been sipping Irish whisky from a camouflaged army-issue water-bottle , responded dramatically to the exchange between Hook and Wendy . |
| 10 | He had been doing excellent business from the Lionisers , so good that he was beneficent enough to feel sorry for poor old Cedric . |
| 11 | Mansell , who had led from the record 14th pole position start of his season , had been resisting persistent challenges from Senna before the pair tangled . |
| 12 | I 've been getting several complaints from readers and viewers about the quality of one type of coconut fibre currently on sale . |
| 13 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 14 | Oswald and his wife Jenny have been selling wet fish from their stall for 45 years . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes … but recently he 's been stealing other things from the house , too … ’ |