Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] in that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 2 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 3 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 4 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 5 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 6 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 7 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 8 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 9 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
| 10 | The 2nd Battalion , Royal Regiment of Fusiliers , was then the infantry battalion in the ACE Mobile Force , and had been in that role since May 1987 . |
| 11 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 12 | All I had was in that crate , its death |
| 13 | ‘ Best investment I ever made was in that place . |