Example sentences of "had [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work . |
| 2 | What had been in my head for so long now out there , in the world . |
| 3 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 4 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 5 | A fourth cherry had been in the slice the Councillor had just removed and eaten . |
| 6 | He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed . |
| 7 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Menzies squashed this with his news of how cool the Gillieses had been in the morning . |
| 11 | Both these families had sons of about twenty , both had been in the crowd that won the signature from Menzies of Bolfracks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Jasper had been in a road accident a few months before the diagnosis . |
| 15 | President Gorbachev , with whom Chancellor Helmut Kohl had been in frequent contact , clearly gave his approval . |
| 16 | These had been in Rome since at least the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 17 | His first action had been in Greece in late 1940 : ‘ We soon went to the border , and the Germans invaded from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia which they had romped through . |
| 18 | It had been in an accident and it was worthless . |
| 19 | The church , which had been in communion with Rome since 1596 , was forcibly merged with the Russian Orthodox church by Stalin in 1948 . |
| 20 | She had been in the post for only seven months when the inquiry started , had little public or professional support , and there was unlikely to be any backlash to her being blamed . |
| 21 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 22 | Ten Kurds who had been in detention were released from Haslar yesterday with permission to stay while their applications for political asylum are processed . |
| 23 | Edwards , Manchester United 's chief executive and major shareholder , was at pains to emphasise that Knighton had been in a position to complete the deal , but had not done so ‘ in the interests of the club ’ and had at no time sought compensation . |
| 24 | Mr Escobar confirmed reports that he had been in contact with the government for over 12 months prior to the crackdown , ordered after the drug-related slayings of a presidential candidate and two other top officials . |
| 25 | But he said : ‘ Even if I had been in Austria longer , I would still be able to defend myself against the outrageous charges of behaving like a war criminal — a charge made against no one else . ’ |
| 26 | Responding to a report in the Los Angeles Times yesterday , Justice Department officials confirmed that the policy had been in place since 21 June . |
| 27 | But there had been no sign since Tiananmen Square that the Chinese had been in the least influenced by the disapproval of the West . |
| 28 | Most unfortunate , had been in action only a couple of hours . |
| 29 | Famines had been a cyclical phenomenon in the Volga region , as they had been in Asia , for centuries . |
| 30 | Since the total grain harvest proved to be a mere 52 per cent of what it had been in 1913 , even the least affected areas had barely enough . |