Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been listening from the doorway ; now he marched into the room and glared at Mr Evans , his eyes hot with anger . |
| 2 | Robyn took a sip and wished she had been listening from the beginning . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The hens that roosted on the rafters would scavenge as usual along the shore , and hunt for dropped oats in the straw and bracken Luch had been gathering from the moor all summer . |
| 6 | It was considered that Sendero had been profiting from the rivalry between the Army and police in the region as to who should spearhead the US-backed campaign against drug trafficking . |
| 7 | The ‘ piecemeal ’ entry of the former colleges of education and some other colleges which had not previously secured polytechnic status was not quite along lines that the Robbins Committee had proposed , but the picture of higher education that had been developing from the early 1960s was now broader and more complex . |
| 8 | But Creggan was not interested right then in learning , all he wanted to know was what happened next when Minch had been hanging from the pole trap . |
| 9 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |
| 10 | Then her mother , who had been watching from the kitchen window , ran to the back door . |
| 11 | When they reached the Manor the children who had been watching from the window ran to greet Tamar . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | William Dunlop had been bidding from the start and James Kilpatrick began with a bid of £4,500 , a sum almost certain to ensure purchase of the horse in normal circumstances . |
| 15 | The two bungalows in question , though , had been standing from the year dot . |
| 16 | But what is equally incredible is that the inhabitants of Seascale had been suffering from the Windscale piles for several years before the fire . |
| 17 | Mr John Goldring , QC , prosecuting , said Allitt had been suffering from the attention-seeking illness Munchausen 's Syndrome by Proxy . |
| 18 | She had been suffering from the disease for a year . |
| 19 | They had been fleeing from the pursuing cloud front , but now they were charging to meet its attack . |