Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had , over many weeks , been siphoning petrol from a garage owner 's tank and lorries ; and the owner had , on this particular weekend , diluted the tank with water . |
| 2 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 3 | Remember , if you have been building circuits from previous parts of the series , check your stock of components before ordering new ones . |
| 4 | Photobooth Collages , since 1985 , Liz Rideal has been using prints from high street photobooths to create large composite pictures . |
| 5 | Hayes may have been protecting Minton from hurt , but Bratby saw in his action the kind of censorship that accompanied then anything to do with homosexuality . |
| 6 | Just think of what that has done to the system there and to all the other applicants who have been seeking help from a Department that tries to ensure that people are given the awards to which they are entitled . |
| 7 | Previously , the most radical members of the Moldavian Popular Front had been advocating independence from the Soviet Union , but none had wanted to rejoin Romania while it was under the oppressive rule of the Ceausescus . |
| 8 | The tanker had been transporting oil from the United Kingdom North Sea terminal at Sullom Voe to La Coruña 's refinery , when it was driven on to rocks during a sudden squall . |
| 9 | The collapse of several large carriers , including Pan American , has provided a pool of very experienced pilots to meet the needs of surviving airlines , who in turn have not been hiring staff from traditional sources such as regional airlines . |
| 10 | Quietly , too , Morton confided to Edward , the stiff and priggish Chamberlain had been pulling chestnuts from the fire . |
| 11 | After all , we have been reaping rewards from the vegetable garden for months : the soil ca n't go on and on providing if its own storehouse is not replenished . |
| 12 | African researchers have also been investigating extracts from medicinal plants . |
| 13 | Jobless Mohammed Aylaus , of Surbiton , Surrey , nabbed after The People handed evidence to police , threatened to shoot a prostitute and her children when he discovered she had been witholding money from him , Reading Crown Court was told . |
| 14 | The decision came last month after the government had been considering bids from the remaining two consortia interested in BTG . |
| 15 | In Austria , certain IVF doctors have been buying eggs from women in the public at large . |
| 16 | He 's understood to have been smuggling cigarettes from Gibraltar into the Spanish Enclave of Ceuto . |
| 17 | ‘ The thing is , Doctor , I 've been having treatment from my GP for some time now . |
| 18 | It 's absolutely massive , yes , it 's a national er campaign , so we 've been recruiting people from all kinds of ways ; direct mail , er getting in touch with people who 've done it for us before , er through magazines and so on and the whole thing has been a major logistical undertaking . |
| 19 | Catherine had for some while been recruiting architects from the West , especially from Italy . |
| 20 | Tonight he 'd been running swabs from the theatres down to the furnace room , in sealed bags and boxes that had been taped and marked with every imaginable hazard warning . |
| 21 | Their structure was by no means on a sound footing by the 1560 's however , and heeding what must have been glowing reports from England , and having seen for themselves good samples of the ore , they were probably quite eager to invest in the English adventure . |
| 22 | They have been collecting tins from their customers to help the needy in the Russian town of Kostroma , which is twinned with County Durham . |
| 23 | They have been collecting goodies from all over the globe , with no trouble or expense spared , and have recently announced that they have just paid a world record price for a rather small amount of tea . |
| 24 | ‘ Spencer has been taking money from customers and only entering a part of the amounts in the books . |
| 25 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 26 | A MAN posing as a worker for the charity War on Want has been taking money from unsuspecting people in the Balmoral area . |
| 27 | Have the receptionists been taking lessons from camels ? |
| 28 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |
| 29 | Has he been taking lessons from the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) in arm movements , or perhaps he is auditioning for a part in ’ Thunderbirds ’ ? |
| 30 | To Zvi , Wine was an upstart — an interloper who had suddenly appeared in the community a year ago ( real name , Zvi had been told , was Benny Wineberg from Brighton ) , set up as a dentist , and by charging ludicrously low fees had been taking clients from Zvi . |