Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [been] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who 'd been in the right place a couple of times . |
| 2 | Well I think it was just because of the the people who put the pressure on at that time , perhaps people who 'd been in the tenants association before , did n't see that as a priority . |
| 3 | He set up an organisation there to try to help those who 'd been in the hands of the Moonies . |
| 4 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 5 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 6 | He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed . |
| 7 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 8 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 9 | That in turn apparently provoked a great argument afterwards among the students who had been in the congregation , with much quotation of Darwin and some rumblings among the creationists present . |
| 10 | It was the red-faced Viking talking to him , the same chap who had been in the pub . |
| 11 | Alan Duffy had overheard Mr Simmons and Miss Craven talking about Frankie 's father , who was a real-life American who had been in the Army and the merchant navy and was now a farmer who posed at the School of Art and played guitar in a popular local dance-band . |
| 12 | The staff who had been in the kitchen when Zambia had landed in the packing cases had gone off duty soon afterwards . |
| 13 | Though of course Müller-Claudius 's ‘ sample ’ was hardly a representative one , the responses have more than a ring of plausibility about them , and , coming from Nazis who had been in the Party since before Hitler 's ‘ seizure of power ’ , can be extended a fortiori to ‘ non-organized ’ Germans . |
| 14 | Hammond , who had been in the Foreign Office since 1824 after a distinguished academic career at Oxford , was considered to be ‘ sharp and a glutton at work ’ , and emerges as a powerful figure who over nearly twenty years as the permanent head of the Office brought nearly every aspect of its work under his personal control . |
| 15 | A. T. The system then was , there was a number of sergeants who had been in the army . |
| 16 | Nancy , who had been in the Waaf two weeks longer than me , was recommended for her Corporal 's stripes . |
| 17 | Giles-the-murderer , who had been in the coffee shop , strolled along into the mêlée and started being frightfully nice to old ladies . |
| 18 | They came from young and old , from friends and strangers , from church groups , and from families in Cleveland and Rochdale who had been in the same position themselves . |
| 19 | This could be the conversation of some of the ladies who had been in the church on that occasion : |
| 20 | He made this reconnaissance with Captain Roger Courtney , of the SBS , who had been in the Mediterranean for some months after training around Arran in Scotland . |
| 21 | It was Rufus 's younger brother Julius who had been in the same form as Adam , a rather dull , pompous boy , a sort of phoney intellectual , and they had never had much to do with one another . |
| 22 | Some of the patrol who had been in the Feelgood could have radioed in a report before things started blowing up , or maybe even got away . |
| 23 | BARRY Fry left Barnet last night to become boss of First Division Southend after the sudden and mutual departure earlier yesterday of Colin Murphy , who had been in the job for less than a year . |
| 24 | Novices who had been in the London Road End for at least a good part of one season displayed quite a detailed acquisition of social knowledge which was appropriate to correct conduct in the Rowdies . |
| 25 | I had a good friend in Marius , who had been in the Swedish Army before joining the Legion . |
| 26 | By the end of the year all the other masters who had been in the forces had returned , and life was beginning slowly to get back to normal . |
| 27 | We found a few examples of workers who had been in the uninterrupted employment of a single organisation long enough to qualify for dismissal protection and statutory redundancy compensation rights , but who still had temporary status . |
| 28 | And he removed his hat and discussed for some minutes the shortcomings of his wife Rita who had been in the land-army when they met . |
| 29 | The shift among painters and sculptors , who had been in the craft guilds , is most clearly marked in the adoption of the term ‘ academy ’ from the place of the famous school of Plato . |
| 30 | Billy Smallbury , one of the men who had been in the cart , climbed up with a bucket of water , to throw water on Gabriel and keep the flames off him . |