Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] had [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Bryan of course had been in touch with the Chief Constable about the security and policing of the tournament . |
| 2 | This shape of coffin had been in use throughout western Europe since at least the middle of the fourteenth century , as shown by an illuminated manuscript in the Royal Library , Brussels , depicting the burial of victims of the Great Plague of Tournai in 1349 . |
| 3 | As I said before , the unity of Judaism had been in question since the time of Alexander . |
| 4 | The state of emergency had been in force since 1987 and covered the 10 predominantly Kurdish provinces . |
| 5 | Later , Julia discovered that the German army in question had been in South Africa and that Colonel Scotland 's appointment had ended some years before the Great War . |