Example sentences of "been [v-ing] from [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She has been wandering from post to post for six years , having left her home in , I suspect , scandalous circumstances . |
| 5 | But the chain was trading as usual and Mr Chapman 's outlook remained buoyant : ‘ The business has been going from strength to strength . ’ |
| 6 | George Bush has been swerving from side to side as Jekyll battles Hyde for command of the president 's soul . |
| 7 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 8 | Policewoman , Leslie Harrison , who was stabbed in the heart , has been speaking from hospital about her ordeal . |
| 9 | Also in the reckoning could be young defender Sean Gregan , who has been suffering from tendonitis in the ankle , and according to Tait , ‘ would n't be far away . ’ |
| 10 | Taylor wo n't know until tomorrow whether David Batty of Leeds is fit , while Paul Gascoigne , despite his wonder goal in Seville , has been suffering from 'flu for more than a week . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The heads of the other men present have been swivelling from side to side , like spectators at a tennis match , during this argument . |
| 13 | Police say they are increasingly concerned for the safety of a Cowley teenager who 's been missing from home for nearly two months Wasem Salim Katana who 's fifteen , was last seen in a taxi on the twelfth of September . |