Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A YOUNG policeman helped to crack a lorry hijacking , the Crown claimed yesterday , because he had been in school with the man accused of abducting the driver and stealing spirits , food and tobacco . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he missed out because he had been in Copenhagen trying for a place in the Olympic team . |
| 4 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |
| 5 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 6 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |