Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 2 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 3 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 4 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 5 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 6 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 7 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 8 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 9 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 10 | All I had was in that crate , its death |
| 11 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 12 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 13 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 14 | Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals . |
| 15 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 16 | If you are sailing in this curved air flow you can not sail as close to the wind as you could if you had been in clear wind . |
| 17 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 18 | They had been in dangerous situations before but none where the stakes were so high . |
| 19 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 20 | Working-class girls were probably less socially protected than they had been in pre-industrial communities , and a variety of influences could come into play , including the temptation of the streets . |
| 21 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
| 22 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 23 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 24 | But the final sale price was still pounds more than it had been in normal trading the month before . |
| 25 | A wide range of so-called sexual sicknesses was diagnosed , Instead of masturbation being classified as wrong or harmful , as it had been in Victorian times , it became not only permissible but obligatory by the new standards . |
| 26 | There is evidence to suggest that the walls which carried these pictures were not normally plastered but panelled , though plaster is used in the tombs of Etruria and Paestum , as it had been in Bronze-age palaces and was to be in Hellenistic tombs in Greece ( below , p. 176 ) . |
| 27 | I count it a privilege to have been asked to become its chairman — though naturally I would wish it had been in happier circumstances . |
| 28 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 29 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 30 | He had been in other worlds beside Ridgery Butts , the Yorkshire Dales and the long miles between , and thieving and creeping and running and looking after himself ; but Marian knew only the Ridgery and remembered very faintly some other sort of life , a memory of glints and patches of a different sort of sunlight . |