Example sentences of "been [verb] in [noun] when [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been serving in Cairo when my father was born , and afterwards the family came to live in England , as my grandfather was posted to the Military Academy at Sandhurst as an instructor . |
| 2 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
| 3 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 4 | They may be laid to rest by ringing a bell which has been blessed in church when they are sighted , then burying the bell in one stretch of water and the clapper in another . |
| 5 | She said he had left the house in the forenoon of 24 October and been covered in blood when he returned at 3am the next day . |
| 6 | ‘ And in case you do n't believe me I would n't still have been covered in snow when I came in if I had ’ |