Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the beginning of the fourth month , a young man who had been in only a few days attacked Carter with a knife . |
| 32 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 33 | The experience he has gained in the mines at immediately a man g a man who has been in the mines goes down there again his er n er he gives himself away , because , just because of the experiences . |
| 34 | In the next cell there is a wild-looking man who has been in prison for 8 years , and whose long , unkempt hair has gone white . |
| 35 | The man who emerged was in his late fifties with short grey hair and round , wire-framed glasses . |
| 36 | Does not the Prime Minister think that that is a terrible indictment of the health policy of a Government who have been in power so long and could have made things so much better ? |
| 37 | Alan Duffy had overheard Mr Simmons and Miss Craven talking about Frankie 's father , who was a real-life American who had been in the Army and the merchant navy and was now a farmer who posed at the School of Art and played guitar in a popular local dance-band . |
| 38 | Even members of the underworld who have been in contact with me are outraged at her murder . ’ |
| 39 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
| 40 | Later , when I consulted on another matter a British doctor who has been in Kampala some thirty years , he stated that he ‘ never advises patients to take mefloquine . |
| 41 | He plays Jeremy Conway , a spy who 's been in Britain for years achieving a powerful position with a large London bank . |
| 42 | Yorkshire Health Authority is seeking legal clarification on the treatment of a victim of the Hillsborough disaster who has been in a coma for three years , he will never recover and his parents want him to be allowed to die . |
| 43 | Yorkshire Health Authority is seeking legal clarification on the treatment of a victim of the Hillsborough disaster who has been in a coma for three years , he will never recover and his parents want him to be allowed to die . |
| 44 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 45 | He appealed to any member of the public who had been in the neighbourhood of the deceased 's home at the critical time to come forward . |
| 46 | ‘ You can win money but you can not eat , ’ said a member of the Ukrainian-Russian squad who have been in England for the past fortnight . |
| 47 | Some of the patrol who had been in the Feelgood could have radioed in a report before things started blowing up , or maybe even got away . |
| 48 | The daughter of a woman with Huntingdon 's chorea who had been in a nursing home described the care she got there as |
| 49 | Apologies were given from Hilda Lodge who had been in hospital for several days for tests . |
| 50 | The third doubtfully determined outcome was from a builder who had been in financial difficulties . |
| 51 | The newspaper described " Captain Combo " as a former member of the Presidential Guard and " very close " to Bob Denard , the French mercenary who had been in charge of President Abdallah 's Presidential Guard at the time of the November 1989 coup , and who had lived since then in South Africa . |
| 52 | From the hospital foyer he tried to telephone the Substitute who had been in court all afternoon and wanted to hear how things had gone . |
| 53 | It was the red-faced Viking talking to him , the same chap who had been in the pub . |
| 54 | Most of the former National Guards were high-ranking figures from the Somoza regime who had been in prison for much of the last 10 years . |
| 55 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 56 | Allan Bland on his son who has been in a coma since the Hillsborough disaster . |
| 57 | The MPs are part of a six-strong Commons party who have been in India a week . |
| 58 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |