Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] [vb past] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ I thought I had been in time . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 8 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 9 | 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 . |