Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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1 | Socialite Lyn Bari , nightclub chanteuse Lizabeth Scott , ecdysiast Rita Hayworth , fiery senorita Dolores Del Rio : they had all been names in his little black book . |
2 | Places such as Ceylon , Colombo , Port Said , the Suez Canal , had only been names in textbooks and beyond her wildest dreams . |
3 | There had already been examples in the fifties , notably Delmer Daves 's Broken Arrow , Robert Aldrich 's Apache and Sam Fuller 's Run of the Arrow , but it began a new trend in which the Western was appropriated by directors in order to express their liberal views . |
4 | There had always been schisms in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
5 | We had both been participants in the Prime of Miss Sylvia Benton , the distinguished archaeologist who was in Athens in the early sixties . |
6 | There had previously been problems in 1938 in Bethnal Green , Limehouse and East Ham when many members became anti-German . |
7 | He caught the glint of a smile from Fael-Inis at that , and felt a sudden delight , because the fire was surging up all about them , and Fael-Inis had taken up a stance at the fore of the Chariot , and he was gathering up silken reins between his hands , only the reins were of living colour and shifting light , and there were certainly spells within them as there had certainly been spells in the Chamber of the Looms … |