Example sentences of "[verb] [been] in their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been in their twenties when the family moved from Trebyan . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | David and Julia and the other court personnel had been in their appointed seats for an hour and a half before the proceedings began . |
| 4 | He and his wife Charlotte had been in their early forties when they had married six years before . |
| 5 | Although there was no hope that her own son and his intimates would forgo their day 's sport , there were those less inclined for the hunt than they had been in their younger days . |
| 6 | Tony and Jean have been in their present home for two years . |
| 7 | It needs to be granted , certainly , that in speaking of a thing 's properties one is not always speaking of individual properties , and that the proponents of more traditional solutions to the problem of universals , unsuccessful though they have been in their own proposals , have made trouble for the solution in terms of individual properties . |