Example sentences of "[vb infin] be in [noun] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd come when you first asked me , I might have been in Saracen for an entire month : I 'd probably have no job to come back to . ’ |
| 2 | A discrete block of land may have been in existence for a long time before it was first described in a written document . |
| 3 | In certain cases the insured or members of his household may not have been in residence for a considerable period but has relied upon friends or neighbours to perform an occasional check of the property . |
| 4 | Janet adds : ‘ Before the idea of the ‘ drop-in ’ centre , we would have been forced to admit the mother and she would have been in hospital for a few days . |
| 5 | As a schoolboy it was thought he would have been in line for an International cap had the war not prevented all that . |