Example sentences of "had been in [noun] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Minister was Nguyen Tuong Tam who had been in south China but not as an associate of Ho Chi Minh ( he fled from Hanoi in June 1946 ) . |
| 2 | The court heard that Wilson , who had been in South Africa since the offences , married in May of this year . |
| 3 | Later , Julia discovered that the German army in question had been in South Africa and that Colonel Scotland 's appointment had ended some years before the Great War . |
| 4 | I had been in New York when Masquerade was stolen . |
| 5 | Consequently , the majority of participants in the group discussion had been in coal mining but now had jobs as unskilled workers in factories . |
| 6 | He had been in Reykjavik harbour when Churchill and Roosevelt had had an Atlantic meeting . |