Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like hundreds of other child victims of the bloody Yugoslav war , Natasha had been sheltering from gunfire in the Sarajevo orphanage , when Mike found her . |
| 2 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The look of strain which had been missing from Jenny 's face most of the morning returned . |
| 5 | Shrubs , which had been dying from lack of water since the supply had been cut off , were suddenly green and straight again in a brief moment of health before the rising waters overwhelmed them . |
| 6 | Arguably the only practical advantage in embalming was that it could reveal whether or not a person had been suffering from catalepsy . |
| 7 | people died by their own hand here in 1992 , the majority of whom had been suffering from depression . |
| 8 | She had been suffering from cancer . |
| 9 | While the specialist was examining her legs , Janet mentioned that Lisa had been suffering from aches in her neck . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The woman had been suffering from radiation sickness , but there was also evidence that she had been tortured . ’ |
| 12 | Last night he had been suffering from jet lag ; now he seemed to be fully recovered , and power flowed from him in waves . |
| 13 | However , if Ross had been suffering from boredom , he managed to hide the fact very well when , only a few days later , he contacted her at the small London flat she was temporarily sharing with some friends from university , and invited her out to dinner . |
| 14 | She had been fleeing from winter all of her life . |
| 15 | During the trial the court heard that the vessel had been travelling from Libya to the Republic of Ireland with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA , the previous four having got through undetected . |
| 16 | It had been travelling from Libya with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA . |