Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been walking away from him towards the path that led to the gate and she turned her head and said , ‘ Did n't want to disturb you ; you looked so peaceful , asleep . ’ |
| 2 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 3 | Maybe the Fax machine was in one of the outbuildings , but they were the other side of the yard near the barn and Cawthorne had been walking away from them . |
| 4 | She had been shrinking away from his anger and distaste , but now she was coming back , a hot fury of her own growing within her . |
| 5 | They had been driving northwards from Copenhagen for half an hour along the beach road when Rune posed the question . |
| 6 | Fei Yen had been looking up from beneath her lashes , her pose the very image of demure , obedient womanhood . |
| 7 | If the minister had been looking out from his manse windows , he would have thought that his prophecy had found honour in its own country at last . |
| 8 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |
| 9 | Er as a result of the success we 've now got to go back and revisit it , I mean Ian you know has been leading in from from this office er and that it 's the person contact which counts for so much . |
| 10 | She was between Titron and the assault boat which had been going away from it . |
| 11 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 12 | The total numbers have been going down from 200,000 per year in 1971 to just over 150,000 in 1981 . |
| 13 | However , at this time when there is an increasing desire among young people to move away , the traditional tenure of first resort , the privately rented sector , has been declining rapidly from 61 per cent of the total in 1947 to 10 per cent in the mid-1980s ( Donnison 1967 , Table 10 ; Social Trends 18 , 1988 , p. 132 ) . |
| 14 | Letters have been flooding in from viewers desperate to see the Spanish soap from the axe in just a few weeks . |
| 15 | Nominations have been flooding in from Dale Farm 's milkmen for the ‘ most deserving customer ’ . |
| 16 | Tributes to Kim have been pouring in from overseas . |
| 17 | Offers of help have been pouring in from all quarters , with the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll putting her conservation department at the ready to assist , and the Secretary of State for National Heritage , Peter Brooke , conceded that his department would be responsible for financing the repair bill . |
| 18 | At that moment Lesley-Jane saw your face — she told me you ‘ looked over your shoulder at her ’ but I did n't at the time realise that meant you must have been facing away from the stage . |
| 19 | The exhibition indicates that Tillyer 's work has been moving away from Hitchens and closer to American landscape-abstractionists , notably Helen Frankenthaler . |
| 20 | It is in the heart of Manchester , but for many years industry and commerce have been moving away from the city centre , increasing the risk that only a lifeless core will be left . |
| 21 | For instance , dispersal patterns of the continents following the break-up of Pangaea show that the now separate continents have been moving away from Africa , which itself appears to have remained relatively stationary . |
| 22 | There can be little doubt that since the 1944 Act , and more particularly since 1974 , power and influence have been moving significantly from the local scene to the national stage . |
| 23 | For the last hour between half-a-million and a million starlings — impossible to estimate accurately — had been flying in from every direction . |
| 24 | They might just possibly have been able to find the morning 's path if they 'd been starting again from the road , but tracking backwards was incredibly difficult . |
| 25 | It was not Selden , who had been running away from that hill . |
| 26 | Ian had been travelling down from the States and through Mexico . |
| 27 | Have your sheep been suffering much from the staggers ? |
| 28 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 29 | The signal is dated 1 August 1942 and states that a stream of messages had been coming in from Stirling in the desert regarding the shipment of supplies by Bombays for delivery on 4 August . |
| 30 | The wolves have been coming in from eastern Europe where they fled to escape hunters and human population expansion . |