Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 2 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 3 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
| 6 | Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them . |