Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [be] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 2 | One of the men sounded furious , the other frightened — the one who 'd been in their car . |
| 3 | They were the only people who 'd been in his room except for his Dad last night . |
| 4 | The man who emerged was in his late fifties with short grey hair and round , wire-framed glasses . |
| 5 | Many of the girls who had been in her class at school , had they been told about it , would have scoffed at the coyness and naïvety of Marie 's fantasy . |
| 6 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 7 | Mimi Machu , who had been in his life for longer than any other woman , apart from Sandra Knight , left him quite suddenly for pastures new , which some said was due to his own attitude to their relationship . |
| 8 | Nothing could shake the steadiness of such men as Hugh Waterton or John Norbury , who had been in his service from the time when he had been merely Henry of Bolingbroke , earl of Derby , and even that title borrowed by courtesy from his father . |
| 9 | Carolyn , who had been in his English class for years , had always been quite insignificant . |
| 10 | Both groups can send useful leaflets as well as putting you in touch with other women who have been in your situation . |