Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 5 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 8 | The 2nd Battalion , Royal Regiment of Fusiliers , was then the infantry battalion in the ACE Mobile Force , and had been in that role since May 1987 . |
| 9 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 10 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 11 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 12 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 13 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 14 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 15 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
| 16 | For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death . |
| 17 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 18 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 19 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 20 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 21 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 22 | She supposed most normal people in a situation like the one she and Alan had been in all day , would have ended up in bed together , here in this comfortable bed at Rose Cottage . |
| 23 | It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery . |
| 24 | He had been in many tight spots during his life , and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly . |
| 25 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 26 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 27 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |
| 28 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |
| 29 | Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt . |
| 30 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |