Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 2 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 3 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 4 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 5 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 6 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 7 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 8 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 9 | I 've been in regular contact with Earl 's Court Project and a lot of my friends down there . |
| 10 | I 've been in traditional sales . |
| 11 | Well , I I find that totally impossible , I mean I know that , I 've been in that plot thousand of times . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been in that sort of situation before , sitting in a dressing- room after losing to a team you 've been expected to beat . |
| 13 | I 've been in that block since it was built , it suits me fine . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been in all morning . ’ |
| 15 | I travelled the country well , I 've been in other authorities both labour controlled , been in to schools , been in old peoples homes , erm seen their roads , or driven over their roads , and I can assure you , that er in Lincolnshire . |
| 16 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 17 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 18 | I 've been in worse scrapes than this . |
| 19 | ‘ I was here in good shape , but I 've been in good shape at other championships and failed . |
| 20 | And I 've been in next door . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been in this part of the country before , remember , ’ he broke off to explain at Isabel 's surprised stare . |
| 22 | Celmira : I 've been in this country for fifteen years . |
| 23 | I 've been in this position loads of times , like . |
| 24 | I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been in this frame of mind for a long time , but no one seems to notice . ’ |
| 26 | Kerly added : ‘ I 've been in this game for 16 years . |
| 27 | K. R. I 've been in tough houses — they would n't come out to help us but they 'd form a ring and let you fight — they would n't just all join in to back somebody up . |
| 28 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 29 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 30 | But I have been in regular contact with Ali Bacher and he assures me there are no problems over the tour and that it is definitely on . ’ |