Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 2 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 3 | Ruth was n't even sure how long she had been back in Palma . |
| 4 | If we 'd been around in Nelson 's day he 'd have given his right arm for a copy . |
| 5 | Since we had been back in Reine , Jean-Claude had stopped speaking of Montaine 's death as if it haunted him unduly . |
| 6 | Maybe the flight would be aborted , as it had been back in January . |
| 7 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |