Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] be in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Archdeacon did not , diplomatically , point out that the Bishop had not consulted Lord Dersingham when the living had been in his gift . |
| 2 | She was sipping the last of her coffee , however , when it suddenly came to her just how much Ven had been in her thoughts since she had awakened , also how very much she wanted to see him again ! |
| 3 | The boy had been in his tutelage now for two and a half years , closer far to him than to his own Lancaster kin . |
| 4 | The first move had been in his choice of the katana as the weapon of combat . |
| 5 | The title had been in her family for generations , and her family appealed against the early Middle Ages ruling which bans women from being Freemen . |
| 6 | The signalman , knowing that this train had been in his section for some time and was overdue , set his points and signal from the up main to the up goods loop to allow the up passenger train , following the goods , to run past without any unnecessary delay . |
| 7 | And revenge had been in his mind when playing the joke on Music Week . |
| 8 | This doubt had been in my mind for some time but the research was undertaken due to a number of reasons . |