Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [pron] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | whatever it is , deflate , and er guy come round , no problems , no problems with it , well I mean the head gasket 's gone and there 's a hole near the wing and bald tyre on it but mechanically it 's , this guy comes round to look at it , I mean he 's been driving it from Plymouth , he 's in the navy , up and down here , bloke comes round , yeah no problem , come on round mate , come and have a look at it , look round it , says yeah I like this can I just take it for a drive ? |
| 2 | At the same time , Peachcake , if worries about the future are what 's been keeping him from showing his feelings for you and he 's as much in love with you as you appear to be with him , there 's to be no hasty wedding . |
| 3 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 4 | As well as putting the finishing touches to their epic 20-track album ‘ Gorgeous ’ — ‘ the most diverse thing we 've ever done ’ — DJing 808 duo the Spinmasters have been spinning discs over in the US , while Graham Massey has been remixing everyone from the Sugarcubes to Future Sound Of London . |
| 5 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 6 | And he 's another one who 's been admiring you from afar . ’ |
| 7 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 8 | No , I would have had to have been snatching them from the cradle then . |
| 9 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 10 | ‘ It was Bernard , who had been watching me from his office and asked me if I had ever thought of a career in modelling . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been watching you from over the wall . |
| 12 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 13 | Ozymandias , whose famous admonishment has been haunting me from Day One , seems to lurk round every corner , laughing up his sleeve . |
| 14 | You have been casting them from that very first night when the gods sent you to haunt me ! ’ |
| 15 | If the ship was locked on to us , it must have been following us from Vadinamia . |
| 16 | Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted . |
| 17 | I immediately saw an increase in the size of my mushroom polyps compared to their pre-crisis dimensions ; obviously the low concentration of phosphate in my water ( which is otherwise good , with zero nitrate ) had been preventing them from fully expanding . |