Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carlo and McGowan stood on either side of the embalmer , he might 've been in custody . |
| 2 | Reason they 're mixed up he , he must 've been in there messing about with them . |
| 3 | So if that was Jim cos Jim would 've been in his he has n't laid |
| 4 | If you were it probably be a bit different than it actually is dad said to me once that if he , that if he 'd like been in charge of it we 'd of gone to the Leeds and not St Augustine 's |
| 5 | This means that a patio of ample size will be needed , which could use a combination of pre-cast slabs and new brick paving , or , of you are lucky , some old bricks that may have been in the garden already . |
| 6 | Those old , glazed rope-twist tiles seem to be hard to find nowadays , and the ones in the picture will have been in the garden for many years . |
| 7 | ‘ Mary — you should have been in the government . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Even 18 months ago , the material would most probably have been in the form of near-illegible carbon copies of an original laboriously produced on a manual typewriter — devices which until recently had to be registered with the authorities . |
| 11 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 12 | No one can remember precisely when the last crime was committed , but it could have been in the early 1900s . |
| 13 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 14 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Stalin is dead , and so since this summer is Andrei Gromyko , who as Deputy Foreign Minister at the time of the 1957 note , might have been in a position to provide some elucidation . |
| 16 | ‘ Unless the Government acts to free students from this sort of red fascism , then all the words of the Education Reform Act will have been in vain . ’ |
| 17 | I am not sure what Harold Brodkey may have been in his last incarnation , but he has now reached that most enviable of all earthly states , that of the American cult writer . |
| 18 | This was already clear by 1926 , and could even have been in 1922 , if only the central authorities had kept a closer watch on the pulse of rural life . |
| 19 | might have been in there to look at someone else , to talk with a club owner or having a drink . |
| 20 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 21 | By the next general election ( say 1 991 ) the Conservatives will have been in office for sixteen of the twenty-one years since 1970 . |
| 22 | Their home was in London and Fanshawe must have been in a hurry . |
| 23 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 24 | ‘ But there might have been in the outhouses ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It seems the continental disease may have been in this country for some time , ’ Dr Tapper says , ‘ but we do n't believe hare populations are in serious danger . ’ |
| 26 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 27 | England 's World Cup preparation outdoors could clearly not be ignored but , even with a weakened squad , a medal might have been in reach . |
| 28 | Ceausescu 's visit this week to Iran may well have been in connection with a possible sale of arms . |
| 29 | If it had n't been a yorker I 'd have looked an absolute idiot , I would n't have been in the same street , let alone cricket ground . |
| 30 | But for the glass in its windows , which originally would have been in small leaded panes , it remains unaltered on the outside . |