Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 35 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 36 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 37 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 38 | It 's been like that dad this past fortnight . |
| 39 | He 's been in that place before , at Sam 's party , and he knows there 's a mooring dock along one wall . |