Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been in Drake Hall a week . |
| 2 | We 'd been in make-up and when we were n't called he said , ‘ Right , Dennis , open the bar . ’ |
| 3 | She had been clinging when she 'd been in Ven 's arms , she had to admit that , but then — she loved him . |
| 4 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |
| 5 | But if you 'd been in trial in America |
| 6 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 7 | why do you Jonathan , St Steven said oh he 'd been in detention . |
| 8 | I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way . |
| 9 | And and lots of churches that he was telling us that he 'd been in contact with . |
| 10 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 12 | He 'd been in love with Arianna , you could hear it in his voice . |
| 13 | ‘ I had about 700 quid and I had some mates who 'd been in Clock DVA , the Sheffield band . |
| 14 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 15 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 16 | Had a nice letter from one of the Romanian boys you met very concerned about my job position — he had heard from one of the others who 'd been in London in the summer and saw |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , years and years ago , after we 'd been in Italy a matter of fifteen months or so . ’ |
| 18 | There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks . |
| 19 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 20 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 21 | Once in a while she went to a social club for air pilots who 'd been in hospital . |
| 22 | It was an awful place : dreary , badly furnished and he was n't as clean as he 'd been in hospital — food all down his clothes and he had n't shaved , he really looked unkempt . |
| 23 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't have known you 'd been in computers . ’ |
| 25 | They admit he 'd been in trouble before but say he did n't deserve to die this way . |
| 26 | A trip to London was planned and they were expecting two visits — one from an elderly relative who 'd been in touch after receiving a holiday postcard and another from two people who used to live in the flat upstairs and had telephoned asking if they could call by . |
| 27 | She 'd been in touch with Tim Dunton , of course . |
| 28 | Her own business needed her attention , but she 'd been in touch with her manager , and everything was under control . |
| 29 | Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look . |
| 30 | The next was a city man , a former civil service clerk who 'd been in FAKOUM from the early days . |