Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been in [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’
2 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 .
3 She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room .
4 If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer .
5 When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go .
6 He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long .
7 To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived .
8 There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other .
9 People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room .
10 He had been in that street two weeks earlier .
11 He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt .
12 If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos .
13 It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months .
14 He remembered the last time he had been in this situation .
15 From his account Bahdu was where he had been in most danger .
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