Example sentences of "they have [adv] [been] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two of them , closer in death than they 'd ever been in life . |
| 2 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 3 | Children should always wash their hands before handling food , particularly if they 've recently been in contact with pets . |
| 4 | The chronicler Roger of Wendover wrote that at the Council of Oxford in 1227 , ‘ the King caused to be cancelled and annulled all the charters of liberties of the forest , although they had already been in force in the whole realm for two years ’ : the earls who rebelled in July were said to have compelled the king to restore the charters by the threat of armed force . |
| 5 | Educationally , girls work harder and do better than if they had still been in school . |
| 6 | Today the large populations are in varzea rich in fish and turtle protein , much smaller ones on the terra firme , but they have now been in decline for some 500 years since the European invasion . |