Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb past] been in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been waiting there since hearing from Bartocci , less than an hour earlier , that the kidnappers had been in touch and that the car would be leaving as soon as it got dark . |
| 2 | Unusually , one of the schools had been in receipt of two Minor awards in successive years . |
| 3 | As such , its loss of support was part of the continuing legacy of the Fitzgerald inquiry into corruption within the Queensland government , where the Nationals had been in power for 30 years until defeated in 1989 . |
| 4 | On the journalists ' evidence , if the directives had been in force during the previous twelve months the effect on air time would have been minimal . |
| 5 | She was brought in when it was discovered that the largest of the two rings , in Penzance , had contact with other rings throughout the country and many of the perpetrators had been in prison . |
| 6 | Yet many of the children had been in bookshops and knew them not to be so . |
| 7 | The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away . |