Example sentences of "[been] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ How long have you been in love then ? ’ |
| 32 | But , Francis , seriously , have you ever been In Love , like a big one ? ’ |
| 33 | ‘ Darling , ’ he said , folding one long leg over the other , sweeping his glasses to the desk , ‘ I have been in love most of my life . |
| 34 | How can her eyes and hands and breasts meet and mingle and Lucy say categorically , like not for one minute or second or fleeting flit of time , never never never had she been in love . |
| 35 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 36 | Pre-Astrid , Jay had been in a dead job , art workshops with utterly disillusioned teenagers , every morning she coughed she rang in sick , malingering Mondays , rain seeped in the doors of the empty bus every morning , the bus to the High Street for the next bus , hoping to be early enough to miss the screaming leering sneering schoolgirls she had to face all day . |
| 37 | ‘ Mary — you should have been in the government . ’ |
| 38 | Menzies squashed this with his news of how cool the Gillieses had been in the morning . |
| 39 | Both these families had sons of about twenty , both had been in the crowd that won the signature from Menzies of Bolfracks . |
| 40 | It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing . |
| 41 | To all this is added ( and it must be emphasised that Catholicism has always been in the ascendancy ) , a healthy input from the Jewish fraternity whose civic and educational emphasis greatly increases the town 's well-being , albeit from a proportionately tiny community . |
| 42 | In deference to custom , there was a party in the child 's honour , central to which was a dish of peas , which symbolises the lessening of grief to those who have been in sorrow — never far from the Jewish consciousness , and of particular relevance to this family ; a copy of the scriptures was placed in the child 's hands , along with a pen — how especially appropriate for this child ! — which will have been followed by the usual Talmudic discussions in which , no doubt , Lyon and Solomon will have capped each other 's comments . |
| 43 | Professor Dudek , as we saw , had been in the van of promoting the post-war interests of poetry in a variety of forms and outlets . |
| 44 | It would have been an education to have been in the House when the Minister spoke . |
| 45 | I have n't been in the least difficult about your doing all that sewing . |
| 46 | Alan had been in the third coach of the second train and was therefore luckier than the people in the first and second coaches , several of whom were dead |
| 47 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 48 | ‘ We are established in many other sports , including the Johnnie Walker Ryder Cup , the RAC Rally , the Silk Cut Derby at Hickstead , the Benson and Hedges Snooker Masters at Wembley , the Volvo European PGA Tour and the British Grand Prix ’ , explains Delahunty , ‘ and although we have been in tennis since 1985 when Stella Artois first commissioned us , I still look at tennis as a growth area . |
| 49 | The golden period of manufacture seems to me to have been in the late 1950s and early 1960s when both manufacturers were making superbly engineered , fully adjustable machines . |
| 50 | It has been in our family since 1850 . |
| 51 | Rex was employed as a toy importer but had also been in wine importation before he joined Khai Eng full-time towards the end of the first year . |
| 52 | I mention all this because it 's been in my mind a lot recently . |
| 53 | Normal fluorescent tubes are familiar enough , but the main development in recent years has been in compact fluorescent lamps , which take the place of normal light bulbs . |
| 54 | Jasper had been in a road accident a few months before the diagnosis . |
| 55 | Raskolnikov asks himself after he has helped the Marmeladov family and been in contact with little children . |
| 56 | The station , which also houses the longwave domestic service has been in continuous operation since 1925 . |
| 57 | It is noticeable that though Derrida is a philosopher , albeit one interested in literature , and has always worked in an academic-philosophical context , even if on the margins of the subject , his major impact in North America has been in literature departments . |
| 58 | If , upon hearing of the manifest truth of the work of art or of the textual , fictional character of the world , the reader will let a knowing smile play upon his face where previously he maintained an attitude of high seriousness , then the aim of this book will have been in part achieved . |
| 59 | Mr Levy-Lang said that this year a quarter of new lending will have been outside France , and 90 per cent of that will have been in the United Kingdom . |
| 60 | A Soviet Deputy Defence Minister , General Varrenikov , has been in Addis Ababa for the past week . |