Example sentences of "i [verb] be in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A lot of the places where Ann and I fish are in remote locations . |
| 4 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 5 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I travelled the country well , I 've been in other authorities both labour controlled , been in to schools , been in old peoples homes , erm seen their roads , or driven over their roads , and I can assure you , that er in Lincolnshire . |
| 8 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 9 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 10 | I 've been in worse scrapes than this . |
| 11 | K. R. I 've been in tough houses — they would n't come out to help us but they 'd form a ring and let you fight — they would n't just all join in to back somebody up . |
| 12 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 13 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 14 | Gray said : ‘ I have been in similar situations before as a player . |