Example sentences of "been in [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 2 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 3 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Has he been in all day ? |
| 6 | Has he been in all day ? |
| 7 | Said it 'll have been in all day . |
| 8 | So you been in all day ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been in all morning . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 12 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 13 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , with a marginally less successful Cup than League record , Athletico have never been in that position . |
| 15 | She had not been in that position . |
| 16 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 17 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a situation I have seen happen but I am grateful never to have been in that position myself ! ’ says Susan , who lives with actor-turned-writer Andy de la Tour in a house they have just bought in London . |
| 19 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 20 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 21 | Jesus Christ , you have been in that pit for the past three hours . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
| 24 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 25 | In socialist France , it is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 26 | In socialist France , unemployment is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 27 | Well , I I find that totally impossible , I mean I know that , I 've been in that plot thousand of times . |
| 28 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 29 | ‘ I mean , maybe Scotland Yard have been in that area . ’ |
| 30 | ( If mortality rates for the age group 20–24 could have been calculated , the nadir would probably have been in that age class ) . |