Sentence examples for had been fetching from inspiring English sources

He had been fetching water when the jets attacked.

(All prices mentioned in this article include a 10percentt buyer's premium). Fish decoys, which are dangled through holes cut in ice on lake or river to lure larger predatory species within spearing range, had been fetching fancy prices over the last few years.

Villagers said the dead boys, who were 8 to 12 years old, had been in front of a house, and the girls, 9 and 10, had been fetching water from a stream alongside it when two American A-10 attack jets firing rockets and machine guns struck at 10 45 a.m.

But some of the elders had been fetching water by hand for so long that they wondered if it was really necessary.

Fragments of mortar showing the imprint of barnacles were found among the rubble in the foundation trenches, indicating that some of the stone used in the structure had been fetched from the shoreline.

"We have been fetching water from wells in the swamp.

Outside of the November auction, pocket watches on the market have been fetching equally high prices.

Yet there are other explanations for the vast sums these works have been fetching.

You have heard about the four-figure prices the console has been fetching on eBay.

Thanks to the nation's unprecedented and currently much-debated real estate boom, houses in top vacation spots like Sullivan's Island have been fetching record prices.

This year a kilo of burley has been fetching only around $1 at auction, disregarding the official minimum of $1.76, which has swelled the ranks of Malawi's malcontents.The country still has a lot going for it.