Example sentences of "[vb infin] be in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if that was Jim cos Jim would 've been in his he has n't laid |
| 2 | They 'll a' be in their beds like decent folk . ’ |
| 3 | The Captain was freer than he could ever remember being in his whole career . |
| 4 | Little new factual material is to be found in Revealing the Universe but where the editors , J. Cornell and A. P. Lightman , do score is in their unique combination of subjects and authors , and the approach to the material . |
| 5 | The girl would have been in her late twenties , early thirties , Newman estimated . |
| 6 | She must have been in her late thirties then , but to me she seemed timeless . |
| 7 | I was also warned to stay away from the tennis court if anyone was playing , but on one Saturday , a party was in progress and Miss Betty Farr , who must have been in her early twenties , spotted me trying not to be seen , called me over and plied me with cakes and lemonade . |
| 8 | Quite a little cracker in her day , she must have been in her late thirties now . |
| 9 | At five o'clock in the morning Ada Neumann would have been in her kitchen , simmering the dozens of doughnut-shaped rolls in hot water for a few minutes before baking them in the oven , glazing them with egg-white and then showering them with sesame seeds . |
| 10 | He met my mother when he was in his early thirties and she must have been in her teens . |
| 11 | Dorothy looked determined rather than festive ; she would have been in her forties at the time but already stood as though planted , like an elderly woman . |
| 12 | Not that he could ever have been in her bed , at least not at Leamings . |
| 13 | " It should have been in her handbag , because the shopman said she did n't go on to the pillar-box to post anything . |
| 14 | The fact , however , that Britain linked herself to the German economy through the ERM meant that , far from conducting the opposite policies to Germany 's — which it would have been in her real interest to do — she had to follow suit . |
| 15 | ‘ She looked comparatively young , but she might have been in her late thirties , signorina . ’ |
| 16 | I mean she must have been in her seventies . |
| 17 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 18 | As I began to eat , her lunch would have been in its final stages and Susan , our three-year-old , anxious to leave the table . |
| 19 | She tried to imagine what an imposing building it must have been in its time . |
| 20 | The picture of the Child of Prague looked down in all its red and gold splendour on the framed photograph of the late Superintendent Michael O'Neal who smiled widely on three little blonde heads who should have been in their beds . |
| 21 | Carpenter 's speed and control was even causing problems for Harris , himself no slouch , and Farnham 's hearts must have been in their mouths when the Cranleigh number 10 , having broken clear on the right , hit the deck after a late challenge by Cann who had raced out of his area . |
| 22 | ‘ The crash happened at a time when a lot of people would have been in their homes . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The crash happened at a time when a lot of people would have been in their homes watching TV . |
| 24 | However , complex these ideas may have been in their original conception , they were taken over by many educationalists in a simplified , stereotypic form , typified by the supposed dichotomy between ‘ elaborated ’ and ‘ restricted ’ codes . |
| 25 | They must have been in their twenties when the family moved from Trebyan . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ That boy could have been in my company or squadron . |
| 27 | But well I 'd have been in my teens then . |
| 28 | when this place come it should have been in my name were n't it , because he never done nothing for it |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I thought they might have been in your family . ’ |
| 30 | they may they may have been in your list of documents , but copies of them may or may not of been handed over but |