Example sentences of "[verb] been in that [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 2 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 3 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 4 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 5 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 6 | For instance , the Borough Surveyor wrote to ask for repairs to be made to the wall between the School and Greek Street : he was politely but firmly informed that the wall was not dangerous , " having been in that condition for twenty years " ! |
| 7 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 8 | The 2nd Battalion , Royal Regiment of Fusiliers , was then the infantry battalion in the ACE Mobile Force , and had been in that role since May 1987 . |
| 9 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 10 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been in that sort of situation before , sitting in a dressing- room after losing to a team you 've been expected to beat . |
| 12 | Jesus Christ , you have been in that pit for the past three hours . |