Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In Cairo , Stirling had recruited Bob Melot , a Belgian who had been in business in Egypt before the war . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Or the desperate plight of a little girl who had been in an orphanage since she was a month old . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yes and on the whole recently we 've had prisoners who been imprison for sort of two or three years , we 've , we 've made up petitions , we 've sent postcards and we 've , we 've written letters and er they 've been released in reasonably short space of time , but then mostly the prisoners which , who have n't had a very long sentence , unlike the one I mentioned on the way here tonight , have the Russian who had been in thirty years |
| 11 | A cyclist who 's been in prison in Nepal for over a month could be freed later this week . |
| 12 | Two schoolgirls from the convent who had been in Dublin to buy books with one of the young nuns turned to see what was happening . |
| 13 | There was n't gon na be single parent families with three children , er living above an old age pensioner who 'd been in there from the word go . |
| 14 | She spoke with the air of an old warrior who has been in so many battles that bravery has become commonplace . |
| 15 | The next was a city man , a former civil service clerk who 'd been in FAKOUM from the early days . |
| 16 | Yesterday , he produced his second extraordinary escape act in succession by coming from behind to win 10-15 , 9-15 , 15-13 , 15-12 , 15-10 , against an opponent who has been in both of the last two world title-winning teams . |
| 17 | In one study , body weight as well as general development progressed more in a group of premature babies living in a hospital nursery which imposed light/dark and noise/quiet rhythms than in a group who had been in a ward with less emphasis on the differences between night and day . |
| 18 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 19 | The man on the train , the teacher who had been in Lancashire for three years , but felt he never really knew it until Walter Machin revealed it to him . |
| 20 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 21 | In 1980 , Ne Win released all political prisoners and invited those like Nu who had been in exile to return . |
| 22 | You wanted at least one person who had been in a commune before , Mary said , and perhaps you ought to advertise along those lines . |
| 23 | I want the observer to note the training methods used what basically went on and at the end of the day I will see the person who 's been in training make a paper aeroplane and I will judge these on two criterias |
| 24 | The neurosurgeon who had been in charge of Guy 's case in the hospital would give them no help or advice , and neither did the doctors . |
| 25 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 26 | A woman who has been in an employer 's scheme for 17 years out of a total working life of 34 years will expect her employer to pay exactly half of her additional pension . |
| 27 | He said the captain who had been in command of the patrol had been correct to order his men to fire and doing so had probably saved their lives . |
| 28 | At the moment the fires began , Petr Zaichnevskii , a twenty-year-old Moscow University student who had been in prison since the previous year , managed to publish Young Russia , " the most bloodcurdling and extreme " of all the calls to action which circulated in the wake of the emancipation . |
| 29 | What a wonderful night : thousands of people , many of them young , black and white , all there is to thank an elderly man who had been in prison longer than many at the concert had even been alive . |
| 30 | The third was to talk to the man who had been in love with Irene Pitt . |