Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] in that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 6 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 12 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 13 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 14 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |