Example sentences of "been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was in September 1989 and he has been in prison since . |
| 2 | having been in the US 's ‘ back yard ’ I know how little attention is paid to those issues there . |
| 3 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 4 | There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work . |
| 5 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |
| 6 | I have been in action some days . |
| 7 | Different generations are well represented here , from the newest professional at the beginning of her career to two who have been in the business for the last forty years . |
| 8 | Statistics up to 1971 showed it as having an old-age structure and to have been in continuing decline , though there are recent signs of improvement ( Census of Ireland 1981 ) . |
| 9 | The two cases also show that change is a possibility , but that it has mainly been in the past through change in the hierarchy 's and clergy 's attitudes as well . |
| 10 | I have never been in the business of producing art-crap , he wrote . |
| 11 | What had been in my head for so long now out there , in the world . |
| 12 | Having Goldberg in the room with it , as he has been in my life since that first day at college , made me grasp clearly , for the first time , just what it is I have been after , he wrote . |
| 13 | Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein . |
| 14 | Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’ |
| 15 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 16 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 17 | A fourth cherry had been in the slice the Councillor had just removed and eaten . |
| 18 | He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed . |
| 19 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'd been in my room — Ronny 'd gone out , he always does between shows . |
| 21 | I do n't think Father has been in the kitchen in his life . |
| 22 | In the middle of the series ' first run this presentation will provide an opportunity to consider how successful FAMILY PRIDE has been in launching onto the region 's and the nation 's screens the UK 's first Asian soap . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've been in the wars rather , have n't you ? ’ |
| 24 | This means that a patio of ample size will be needed , which could use a combination of pre-cast slabs and new brick paving , or , of you are lucky , some old bricks that may have been in the garden already . |
| 25 | Those old , glazed rope-twist tiles seem to be hard to find nowadays , and the ones in the picture will have been in the garden for many years . |
| 26 | In my experience , the only occasions when I have stalled unexpectedly and known what was happening at the time , have been in very fierce stubble fires and dust devils . |
| 27 | By this time , though , the lice have probably been in the hair for several weeks . |
| 28 | And they have been in a position to determine the way they are investigated and the manner of their public exposure . |
| 29 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 30 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |