Example sentences of "that [pron] [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 . |
| 7 | It meant at least that someone had been in the burial mound , though not necessarily recently . |
| 8 | After some spirited discussion Margaret agreed with the policy but pointed out with some feeling that she had been in the chair of every meeting of the Economic Committee throughout the Falklands crisis . |
| 9 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |
| 10 | The message read that she had been in the hotel that night ; that she had met David ; that a tape had been taken of the conversation ; that if he thought he could arrest her brother and charge him with murder , he should now try ; that , if he thought he could intern her whilst completely innocent , he should now try ; that several persons had listened to the conversation in the hotel that night and that one was an Ulster MP . |
| 11 | Diana insisted that she had been in her apartment , exhausted after a late night at the Ritz hotel where she and Prince Charles had attended Princess Margaret 's 50th birthday party . |
| 12 | She had projecting teeth and told everyone who would listen that she had been in love with Yorick since she was twelve . |
| 13 | Mr McBaine said , however , that she had been in a position of trust . |
| 14 | This was the first time in her life that she 'd been in the company of a man who could bring her out in nervous flushes , make her heartbeat race and her stomach turn all watery , just by watching her … |
| 15 | ‘ That she liked being in the wood . ’ |
| 16 | I understand from Simon that you had been in touch regarding your proposal . |
| 17 | We returned to Makassar from the Toraja highlands with dangerously diminished funds , realizing that we had been in Celebes for two months and that the chances of finding a prahu which could carry us the nearly two thousand miles to the Aru Islands were remote . |
| 18 | We were in precisely the same place that we had been in three dawns previously ! |
| 19 | Erm th there were some complaints about er , this is first liaison meeting that there 'd been in the county , and you know they were obviously |
| 20 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 21 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 22 | In other words , quite apart from the franchise changes that did the party no net harm , the changes of 1918–21 transformed the Unionists from the natural minority that they had been in 1914 to a natural majority party until the Second World War . |
| 23 | Thirty MPs prefixed their names with Bo , indicating that they had been in the BNA and were now active in the PVO . |
| 24 | A four-month amnesty came into force on Oct. 13 allowing illegal non-EC immigrants to regularize their position , provided that they had been in the country for six months and were earning a living . |
| 25 | Then they stared at each other in silence and saw into each other 's heart , sensing that each was a little afraid of what was to come , and of the powers that they felt were in their wings and across their lives and which had brought them together . |
| 26 | Well before 1330 the Angevin Empire had ceased to be the dynamic and significant political force that it had been in the mid and late twelfth century . |
| 27 | Interest and miscellaneous expenses were , however , quite a different matter , and the fact that it had been in the nature of his employment to disburse vast and unspecified amounts , as he put it , ‘ upon the simple word of the treasurer ’ , who had died in 1635 , did not help matters . |
| 28 | His body felt that it had been in a terrible accident . |
| 29 | However , I was riveted by the speech of the hon. Member for Taunton ( Mr. Nicholson ) , who welcomed a measure that he thought was in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 30 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |