Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be in [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only an usher for company , he showed no outward signs of distress as he said : ‘ I had been in bed for five minutes waiting for my mummy . |
| 2 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 3 | I had been in hospital for about two days when they told me my tumour was malignant . |
| 4 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 5 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 6 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
| 7 | Her eighteen-month jail sentence was reduced on appeal — but not before she had been in prison for six months . ) |
| 8 | We returned to Makassar from the Toraja highlands with dangerously diminished funds , realizing that we had been in Celebes for two months and that the chances of finding a prahu which could carry us the nearly two thousand miles to the Aru Islands were remote . |
| 9 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 10 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 11 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 12 | As far as Comfort knew , they had returned to the States for the duration , although in fact they had been in London for part of the time , working for the Free French , and back in France for most of the rest . |
| 13 | He could n't think whether they had been in bed for an hour , or four hours . |
| 14 | Amongst them , four party leaders — they had been in place for 12 , 13 and 21 years . |
| 15 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 16 | When Joyce joined the British Fascisti in December 1923 , it had been in existence for seven months . |
| 17 | The paper published by the Commission is to be submitted to EC transport ministers ; it had been in preparation for some time , but work was speeded up following the recent tanker accidents in the Shetlands and at La Coruna in northern Spain [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 18 | Although the then International Trade Minister John Crosbie staunchly defended the pact , the Economic Council of Canada , an independent advisory body established by the Federal Parliament , decided not to attempt to assess its impact until it had been in operation for five years . |
| 19 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 20 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 21 | According to Mr Carson , the professor had taken his degree at Oxford , but he had been in America for several years now . |
| 22 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
| 23 | At the time of his arrest , he had been in Ireland for 10 days . |
| 24 | Roderick Hunt , defending Brooklyn , said he had been in custody for five weeks . |
| 25 | He had been in office for only 65 days , ending in January 1981 . |
| 26 | ’ A stuffy set-up like this needs someone like me to redress the balance , ’ he would claim , usually after he had been in trouble for some misdemeanour or other . |
| 27 | He had been in trouble for the most part of his life , the eldest of the poor working class family of seven children , he had always been the black sheep . |
| 28 | He had been in prison for three months . |