Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] charge " in BNC.

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1 It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge .
2 Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea .
3 Keith James and Jim McCreedy , who had been in charge for an increasingly fraught 20 months , had their resignations accepted this week .
4 Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division .
5 If it had been in charge from the outset , its architects and liturgists might have devised more dignified surroundings and procedures than those that now prevail .
6 Mr Reuss , who had been in charge of the North American car operations for five years , will be replaced by vice-chairman John Smith , who transformed GM 's ailing European operations in the 1980s .
7 A high-ranking Polish military intelligence officer , Colonel Michael Goleniewski , who had been in charge of Polish military intelligence in East Berlin , defected to the CIA in West Berlin .
8 The neurosurgeon who had been in charge of Guy 's case in the hospital would give them no help or advice , and neither did the doctors .
9 Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ .
10 He had been in charge of situations for the previous half century , since he had commanded guns on the Barham at the Battle of Jutland , as a midshipman , in the First World War .
11 Consequently he placed advertisements in Russian newspapers , stating that he had been in charge of the production and clarification of Veuve Clicquot wines for a number of years where he succeeded in achieving perfect limpidity .
12 His boyish features seemed almost bright , almost happy , as he listened to the Coroner questioning a police Inspector , who had been in charge of the Metropolitan Police 's part in the operation .
13 He had been in charge of an Army motorcycle team which managed to raise the money for a £10,000 minibus for handicapped children .
14 Was this because Rayne had been in charge of the Commissariat ?
15 Though only 53 , he had been associated with the School for 44 years , having been a pupil at Greek Street , and had been in charge of Greek since 1938 .
16 He had been in charge of the Recorder Club ; he had taken boys sailing at Toddbrook and Salcome ; he taught so-called " dead " languages but made them live : quieter and gentler pursuits than many , no doubt , but performed with enthusiasm and commitment .
17 In the old days , he and his brother Josh had been in charge of the Punishment Squad .
18 A Roman Catholic priest who had been in charge of the church 's Beirut aid mission to orphans and refugees in the Middle East while Coleman was out there , Msgr Esseff had returned to the US to become director of the pontifical Mission Aid Societies , responsible for Catholic aid and refugee work globally .
19 Two days ago — one day ago — he had been in charge of his destiny .
20 Dexter , 57 , was the first chairman to be paid when he took over in March 1989 after Peter May had been in charge for seven years .
21 If he had been in charge , we would have been out of the Community , because that was the basis of his election campaign .
22 In both capacities Wall had been in charge of monitoring the thrift industry since July 1987 .
23 Custodio , who had been in charge of his security , said during the trial that the former armed forces Chief of Staff , Gen. Fabian Ver , who left the Philippines with Marcos in 1986 , had instructed him to draw up the security plan for Benigno Aquino 's arrival .
24 Zabaleta , 39 , known in ETA as Waldo , had been involved with ETA since he was a teenager and had been in charge of its itinerant commandos since 1984 .
25 Vu Oanh , 67 , and Le Phuoc Tho , 64 , were both elected to the secretariat in 1986 and had been in charge of mass mobilization and agriculture , respectively ; Pham Van Kai , 58 , the Soviet-trained Chair of the State Commission for Planning , was one of five southerners in the new politburo and a former mayor of Ho Chi Minh City ; Bui Thien Ngo , 62 , was Permanent Vice-Minister of the Interior ; Nong Duc Manh , 51 , a member of the Tay ethnic group and the first minority leader to be elected to the politburo , was head of the central committee 's commission for nationalities ; Pham The Duyet , 55 , was secretary of the Hanoi party committee and a former trade union leader ; Nguyen Duc Binh , 64 , was director of the Nguyen Duc Binh Institute for training party cadres ; Vo Tran Chi , 64 , was secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City party committee .
26 Shalikashvili was currently senior assistant to the chair of the US joint chiefs of staff ( Gen. Colin Powell ) and in 1991 had been in charge of the operation to protect the Kurdish population in northern Iraq .
27 The newspaper described " Captain Combo " as a former member of the Presidential Guard and " very close " to Bob Denard , the French mercenary who had been in charge of President Abdallah 's Presidential Guard at the time of the November 1989 coup , and who had lived since then in South Africa .
28 The lack of a contingency plan for this eventuality left the all-important Army of Africa , together with its commanders , General Franco and Colonel Yagüe ( who , under Franco 's orders , had been in charge of the Legion during the repression of the Asturian revolutionary movement in 1934 ) , stranded on the far side of the Straits of Gibraltar .
29 if he had been in charge , things would have been very different .
30 The defendant had been a director of plaintiffs for 13 years and had been in charge of the development and sales of a certain type of heater .
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