Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] been in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How he must have wished to have been in the puppet 's place , no policies , work and no strings attached . |
| 2 | May is known to have been in the service of George Villiers , second Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , |
| 3 | Browne did so and from his own contacts within the RUC learned several pieces of information such as the fact that the Star pistol was assumed to have been in the custody of the army since the previous owner was shot a year earlier . |
| 4 | Police who were called to the Lion Tavern in Moorfields found her body on a settee but there was no sign of her 20month-old son Gareth who was believed to have been in the pub when his mother was killed . |
| 5 | When SDLP leader John Hume met the IRA in 1985 he was taken to a house — widely believed to have been in the Republic — and after a wait of 28 hours was introduced to a man who said he was an IRA spokesman . |