Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The programme notes said you 'd been in Cats . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I would n't have known you 'd been in computers . ’ |
| 3 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 4 | Clive & Stokes was originally founded at the beginning of 1959 when John Stokes , who had been in personnel management in ICI and Courtaulds and was later to become the Mp for Halesowen and Stourbridge , joined Robert Clive Associates , a small recruitment company . |
| 5 | I once visited a local MIND centre which was a day and short-term residential centre for people who had been in institutions with mental illness . |
| 6 | The body 's centre line and she equated that and what she said was in terms of the hands that people who were open and positive communicators used on average more symmetrical open palm gestures than individual or closed palm gestures non-symmetrical . |
| 7 | He had been in scenes like this with his teenage daughters , and he kept thinking : ‘ I must stay cool . ’ |
| 8 | He had been in trawlers and , when he found I was interested , told me a lot about fishing off Iceland and Spitzbergen . |
| 9 | Massive , grizzled and elderly , he had been in ships since he was a boy , and he wanted no other life . |