Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one could tell she and Nevil had been in it . |
| 2 | Moynihan had been in his time a University cox and a flyweight boxing blue , and barely came up to her elbow . |
| 3 | Benny had been in something of a fog since her visit to the museum . |
| 4 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 5 | Colin Youngs had been in his garden when he saw William Wray approach his friend and a scuffle start . |
| 6 | If Jesus had been in your class for drama , who would he have chosen to work with in a pair ? |
| 7 | She looked after the car , knowing she had been so absorbed she would never have noticed if the Josephs had been in it . |
| 8 | Fabia had been in her room for a good half-hour before she cooled down sufficiently to realise that maybe her reaction to Lubor 's hauling her into his arms had been a little — fierce — perhaps . |
| 9 | Bénezet had been in his service long enough to understand his own part in the operation in hand without having to be told . |
| 10 | He and his wife Charlotte had been in their early forties when they had married six years before . |