Example sentences of "[noun] had been [v-ing] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hens that roosted on the rafters would scavenge as usual along the shore , and hunt for dropped oats in the straw and bracken Luch had been gathering from the moor all summer . |
| 2 | But what is equally incredible is that the inhabitants of Seascale had been suffering from the Windscale piles for several years before the fire . |
| 3 | ‘ What in the world are you two talking of ? ’ interrupted Rose , whose perplexed gaze had been going from one to the other . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( b ) As the deceased had been suffering from clinical depression which impaired his judgment , his act had not been voluntary and the defence of volenti failed . |
| 6 | Darlington magistrates were told Mr Siddle had been suffering from clinical depression triggered by business problems . |
| 7 | Darlington magistrates were told Mr Siddle had been suffering from clinical depression triggered by business problems . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Mr John Goldring , QC , prosecuting , said Allitt had been suffering from the attention-seeking illness Munchausen 's Syndrome by Proxy . |
| 10 | Arguably the only practical advantage in embalming was that it could reveal whether or not a person had been suffering from catalepsy . |
| 11 | But for families standards of living were reduced by the fact that women 's earnings had been falling from 1760 . |
| 12 | ‘ The woman had been suffering from radiation sickness , but there was also evidence that she had been tortured . ’ |
| 13 | Dr Bob Cooper gave medical evidence and , according to my shaky shorthand outline , the dead man had been suffering from sexual depression . |
| 14 | William Dunlop had been bidding from the start and James Kilpatrick began with a bid of £4,500 , a sum almost certain to ensure purchase of the horse in normal circumstances . |
| 15 | An autopsy revealed that the pilot had been suffering from severe coronary artery disease . |
| 16 | A brain scan showed extensive bleeding around the brain , and the specialists concluded that Guy had been suffering from internal bleeding since his accident on the previous day . |
| 17 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour . |
| 18 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help . |
| 19 | While the specialist was examining her legs , Janet mentioned that Lisa had been suffering from aches in her neck . |
| 20 | Evidence was also given that Ward had been suffering from a personality disorder and was highly suggestible at the time of her arrest and trial . |
| 21 | She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from . |
| 22 | But Creggan was not interested right then in learning , all he wanted to know was what happened next when Minch had been hanging from the pole trap . |
| 23 | It was considered that Sendero had been profiting from the rivalry between the Army and police in the region as to who should spearhead the US-backed campaign against drug trafficking . |
| 24 | On this occasion John had been breeding from a group of Aspidoras lakoi and kindly offered me a couple of pairs to try . |
| 25 | 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 . |