Example sentences of "[that] i [vb past] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 2 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 3 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 4 | Something that I noticed is in the towns like Kirkwall and Stromness there 's a kind of slovenly way of speaking Orcadian where they go butter water . |
| 5 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 6 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |