Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] been in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lower School was opposite the Chapel and here , under the dark oaken beams and arches , I was taught in a classroom that had been in continuous use as such since 1443 . |
| 2 | Only once had he said he loved her , and that had been in extreme circumstances . |
| 3 | It was a new school for us too , but at least we were all there together , and had been in Junior School together . |
| 4 | Leader of the ‘ Prague Spring ’ reform movement that was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968 , Dubcek was 70 when he died in Prague , and had been in intensive care after his car plunged off a road in heavy rain on September 1 . |
| 5 | This should have been no problem as she was a swimming champion of the South London Schools and had been in excellent health . |
| 6 | Of the sixteen women in their survey who were currently working-class and had been in institutional care , ten had premarital pregnancies . |
| 7 | But , he said , last week the beleaguered Mr Major had found new friends in the SNP — which had for weeks been urging all-party opposition talks on the government of Scotland , but had been in secret negotiations with a Tory government . |