Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd been in Drake Hall a week . |
| 5 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |
| 6 | It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge . |
| 7 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 8 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 11 | With only an usher for company , he showed no outward signs of distress as he said : ‘ I had been in bed for five minutes waiting for my mummy . |
| 12 | Well , I had been in bed and asleep earlier in the night . |
| 13 | A few weeks before my talk at Wellesley College , I had been in New York at the invitation of Social Policy , a leftist magazine with a record of antipathy toward IQ testing and its social implications . |
| 14 | I had been in New York when Masquerade was stolen . |
| 15 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 16 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 17 | But he said : ‘ Even if I had been in Austria longer , I would still be able to defend myself against the outrageous charges of behaving like a war criminal — a charge made against no one else . ’ |
| 18 | Whenever I had been in London I had visited the Natural History Museum and Rowland Ward 's taxidermist shop in Piccadilly , where there was always a fascinating collection of heads , skins and mounted specimens . |
| 19 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 20 | Though I had been in Casualty longer than the three weeks Sister had talked of on my first morning , and by Cas. rules was temporarily senior to Daisy Yates , it was Daisy who was sent to join the Accident Nursing Team . |
| 21 | I had been in hospital for about two days when they told me my tumour was malignant . |
| 22 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 23 | I had been in television studios before but never with a live audience , so that was a bit different . |
| 24 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I thought I had been in time . ’ |
| 26 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ . |
| 27 | However , when I had been in Huntingdon a few weeks she persuaded me , against my will , to accompany her to a dance which was being held at Alconbury , one of the American air bases nearest to us . |
| 28 | It would be true to say without exaggeration that throughout my mature life , in my quest to transform humanity , I had been in search of Mr White Face , as I thought of him . |
| 29 | I was 19-years-old and , although I had been in action bombarding the Normandy coast and seen ships lost , the thought of this new venture alarmed me . |
| 30 | The House approved cases the authority of which had been in doubt . |