Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consultation with the next of kin has a further advantage in that it may reveal information as to the personal circumstances of the patient and as to the choice which the patient might have made , if he or she had been in a position to make it . |
| 2 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 3 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 4 | I thought it would be quicker , you see and I 'd been in the services as well , because I used to give a subscription to British Legion |
| 5 | , we went in the August and they were back by September , so he could start back well school and I 'd been in , in the summer holidays and they said and I felt poor little bastard , got to start a new school , he ai n't gon na know anybody |
| 6 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ . |
| 7 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 8 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
| 9 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |
| 10 | But initially there had to be a real , genuine erm working class revolution and therefore Marx looked first to England because we were the most advanced and we 'd been in the business of running capitalism for s so much longer than any other country in the world . |
| 11 | There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks . |
| 12 | However fourteen days later they were still pulling out er live babies and they 'd been in there in the rubble for fourteen days . |
| 13 | Dominic was dead , and he had been in my bedroom barely half an hour before he was killed . |
| 14 | Others would emerge from the ruin of the body itself , and he had been in constant contact with Ian Macdonald , who was still at work in Oxford . |
| 15 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 16 | His name was Roberto Coloni and he had been in hospital following a bad fall in which he had broken his shoulder blade , forearm and two ribs , as well as suffering bad concussion , which had affected his hearing . |
| 17 | To begin with , only the coincidence of the deaths of father and son within four days of each other ; beyond that his notion of a connection had been no more than a hunch , and he had been in the business too long to back his hunches far ahead of evidence . |
| 18 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 19 | He makes me laugh though , I mean , as soon as I came downstairs and he 'd been in the lounge |
| 20 | She turned away , leaving Peggy standing stiff and cold , although the sun was shining and it had been in the seventies all day . |
| 21 | Before , I loved being at home but I loved being in work too and I do miss it , the girls and all . |
| 22 | But she had been in a coma , she was n't mad . |
| 23 | Monsieur was on his way to see his lady-love and she was alone , but she had been in somebody 's arms . |
| 24 | But she had been in his strong arms before , and as agitation at her own weakness assailed her , so , while she still could , she fought to be free . |
| 25 | Her own business needed her attention , but she 'd been in touch with her manager , and everything was under control . |
| 26 | According to Mr Carson , the professor had taken his degree at Oxford , but he had been in America for several years now . |
| 27 | He was n't at all old , but he had been in poetry long enough to take these things coolly . |
| 28 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |
| 29 | But he 'd been in his prime then , a match for any King Lud who 'd taken it into his weak head to break into the Dallam weaving sheds , in the dead of night , and start smashing his machines to bits . |
| 30 | Then the , the Assistant Secretary for Education was erm a very interesting chap erm he was a Mr A O D and erm he was , he had erm an elementary school background , he had n't a degree or any qualification but he 'd been in so long that er he 'd worked his way up to erm , s erm to Assistant Secretary for Education and he was a jolly chap and erm and he produced a , a dictionary of erm , of the Suffolk dialect which has became quite erm , quite a classic work really |