Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.

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31 In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’
32 Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives .
33 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 .
34 He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago .
35 He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall .
36 People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room .
37 He had been in that street two weeks earlier .
38 He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt .
39 It 's been like that dad this past fortnight .
40 He 's been in that place before , at Sam 's party , and he knows there 's a mooring dock along one wall .
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