Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 4 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 6 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 7 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 8 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 9 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 10 | Israel had been in political crisis since March 15 , when the previous ruling coalition between Labour and Likud collapsed in disagreement over how to proceed with the Middle East Peace process [ see pp. 37303-04 ] . |
| 11 | Before that time , alcohol had been in general use to deaden pain , though some sturdy souls rejected it on principle . |
| 12 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 13 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 16 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 17 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 18 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 22 | She supposed most normal people in a situation like the one she and Alan had been in all day , would have ended up in bed together , here in this comfortable bed at Rose Cottage . |
| 23 | Indeed , contrary to MAFF 's stubbornly held views that the LFA Directive can not be used to support conservation except as an ancillary to agricultural development , the then Minister of Agriculture , Mr Peter Walker , answered a question in the House on 10 December 1981 on how successful the LFA Directive had been in encouraging production in the UK . |
| 24 | A total of 118 union and student leaders who had been in internal exile since the declaration of the state of siege were reported to have been released on Nov. 27 . |
| 25 | It was a new school for us too , but at least we were all there together , and had been in Junior School together . |
| 26 | Luiza , who was always very happy singing Czipra as she spent most of the evening sitting on a gypsy log , had been in superb voice and Therese — Busacher gloated — Therese had made one or two of the more discerning wonder what she was going to do in some of the other productions . |
| 27 | Frank Adler had been in 2nd place at the end of the first lap , eventually dropping back to 9th , the best German result in the Quincey Cup series . |
| 28 | By then , L had been in foster care for about a month . |
| 29 | Zambia had been in total agreement at first . |
| 30 | The Soren Larsen , which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line had been in dry dock for seven months . |