Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [vb past] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 2 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I thought I had been in time . ’ |
| 4 | On board was a Maltese deck passenger who boasted he had been in nine different prisons in England ; after we had sailed a friend of his was discovered stowed away in the chain locker . |
| 5 | One night as she lay in bed with her husband , she heard ‘ a sound of melody so sweet and delectable , that she thought she had been in paradise ’ . |
| 6 | Those at the exiled Court became hopelessly out of touch with political realities in post-Revolutionary England ; many of them were living in the world as they thought it had been in the late 1680s , and their platform increasingly appeared to have less and less relevance to the new problems facing England . |
| 7 | They admit he 'd been in trouble before but say he did n't deserve to die this way . |
| 8 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 9 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 10 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 11 | One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago . |
| 12 | He wanted us to think he 'd been in Retford . |