Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | because Youth and Carniki I knew are in the same building , which is why we wanted to see you |
| 2 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 3 | I have looked up my own record over the past six months , and I find that the only courthouse whose closure I approved was in Leicestershire and was precisely 500 yd from a new courthouse costing £8 million which we had erected to take its place . |
| 4 | I suggested that the latter point could be explained in part by reference to the change in the social composition of the electorate which had been in progress over the '60s . |
| 5 | A CLASSIC Rolls-Royce limousine which had been in the same Scottish family for 60 years made £21,275 at a Sotheby 's weekend car sale at the Royal Air Force museum , Hendon , North London . |
| 6 | Parliament on June 12 , 1991 , approved a constitutional amendment to allow female members of the royal family to succeed to the throne , thus overturning the male-only succession which had been in place since Belgian independence . |
| 7 | Early the following morning a British soldier who had been in the orphanage was admitted to the hospital suffering from a high fever , so the carabinieri still had one English prisoner to guard . |
| 8 | At a four-day show trial in May 1963 Wynne received an eight-year prison sentence but in April 1964 was conveniently exchanged for Konon Molody , or ‘ Gordon Lonsdale ’ , the professional KGB spy and member of the Portland spy ring who had been in prison with George Blake . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | A Roman Catholic priest who had been in charge of the church 's Beirut aid mission to orphans and refugees in the Middle East while Coleman was out there , Msgr Esseff had returned to the US to become director of the pontifical Mission Aid Societies , responsible for Catholic aid and refugee work globally . |
| 11 | The 13 candidates included President Mathieu Kerekou , an avowed Marxist who had been in power since his military coup of 1972 , and his Prime Minister , Nicéphore Soglo , a former World Bank official . |
| 12 | In Cairo , Stirling had recruited Bob Melot , a Belgian who had been in business in Egypt before the war . |
| 13 | 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 , |
| 14 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 15 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 16 | The bombings appeared to be an attempt to force the government to negotiate over the hunger strike by some 40 GRAPO prisoners which had been in progress since Nov. 30 , 1989 [ see p. 37588 ] . |
| 17 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 18 | A little Gibraltarian girl with pneumonia in both lungs , was not responding to the May and Baker Lung resection I knew was in progress . |
| 19 | The only corners I knew were in the playground where boys tried to fumble in my knickers , and street corners where the winds met head-on . |
| 20 | The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period . |
| 21 | The Liebherr LTM 1090 crane replaces a similar capacity vehicle which had been in service at the terminal since May 1982 . |
| 22 | In this way , specific dates can be given to a sequence of finds as more information becomes available : if , for example , a cemetery which had been in use for several decades is excavated , the finds from each grave are studied as individual groups to be fitted into an overall sequence . |
| 23 | Those gardens which survived were in the main bulldozed and concreted over to provide station car-parking in the 1950 , another victory for functionalism over aesthetics . |
| 24 | The result of a ballot announced yesterday showed 78 per cent of parents who voted were in favour of Helena Romanes school in Great Dunmow opting out . |
| 25 | The Greens held one portfolio , that of Health ; this was held by Bozidar Voljc who had been in the Cabinet since January 1992 . |
| 26 | The British Ambassador , Anthony Parsons , a man whose heavy spectacles gave him an amiable academic appearance , was an Arabist who had been in Iran since 1974 . |
| 27 | ‘ She asked me to give it to the lady who had been in court with her child , and to ask if you would take care of her till she could come for her . ’ |
| 28 | Or the desperate plight of a little girl who had been in an orphanage since she was a month old . |
| 29 | There was a crudely written note attached to the child giving her name and saying that the mother was an unmarried Irish girl who had been in service and was going back to Ireland . |
| 30 | However , Lois Maxwell , who played the ever-loyal Miss Moneypenny , says , ‘ Diana and I had lunch together and after eating some shrimps she realized how much garlic there had been in them . |