Example sentences of "[vb past] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 2 | The job involved being in charge of ‘ country correspondents ’ in villages scattered within 25 to 50 miles around the city , editing their weekly contributions , measuring their column-inches for payments and generally supervising the rural aspect of the newspaper . |
| 3 | Although comparisons of fixed doses of drugs have limitations , the doses of propranolol and nifedipine used were in the middle of their therapeutic ranges . |
| 4 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 5 | Looking back on their ten years of marriage , Davina and Alastair feel they stopped being in touch with what their needs were after their children were born . |
| 6 | The farmers visited were in Buskerud county , with five in the hill region just north of Drammen and five some 160km northwest of that city around Al , Gol , Torpo and Nesbyen . |
| 7 | This seems a particularly harsh result where the person assaulted was in plain clothes , and it may be doubted whether it can be justified in principle . |
| 8 | The equipment listed was in use in 1989 for a maximum of 30 windsurf guests . |
| 9 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 10 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 11 | One of the places we used was in such a state of unrepair that every time it rained we had to put out buckets everywhere just to keep our feet dry . ’ |
| 12 | The specification used was in error correction format ( Hendry et al , 1983 ) which by specifying variables in both differences and lagged levels enables one to separate out long and short run influences on the dependent variable . |
| 13 | The first device found was in a toy shop . |
| 14 | The prayer that occurred was in a small group and it was a prayer for power for the church . |
| 15 | The whole Cabinet agreed that there should be a cut in the amount that the unemployed were receiving ; where they disagreed was in whether this should include a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 16 | For the first episode , the house that crumbled was in a real North London street designated for demolition . |
| 17 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'd been in my room — Ronny 'd gone out , he always does between shows . |
| 19 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 20 | If he 'd been in Eden , he would have probably left apple cores strewn all around the garden . |
| 21 | He 'd been in the War , him and Uncle John . |
| 22 | They were the only people who 'd been in his room except for his Dad last night . |
| 23 | It was a secret they 'd been in the house . |
| 24 | Once in a while she went to a social club for air pilots who 'd been in hospital . |
| 25 | If she 'd been in the kid 's place , she 'd have run off by now and left them all to it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 28 | I 'd forgotten you 'd been in it . ’ |
| 29 | Someone who 'd been in the right place a couple of times . |
| 30 | ‘ If I 'd been in your shoes I 'd have walked right out on him . ’ |