Example sentences of "[verb] [been] in that [noun] " 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 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 3 | And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do . |
| 4 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 5 | I do n't think that chair could have been in that book Brian . |
| 6 | She had said it was her niece because the girl was young and had black hair and because who else but Nora Fanshawe could have been in that car with her parents ? |
| 7 | So it 's a bit frightening when you think a pensioner 's money may have been in that account at thirteen fifty on a , on ten thousand invested , and now they 're down to seven hundred . |
| 8 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 9 | ( If mortality rates for the age group 20–24 could have been calculated , the nadir would probably have been in that age class ) . |
| 10 | It may well have been in that picture that the new type was created . |
| 11 | For instance , the Borough Surveyor wrote to ask for repairs to be made to the wall between the School and Greek Street : he was politely but firmly informed that the wall was not dangerous , " having been in that condition for twenty years " ! |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a situation I have seen happen but I am grateful never to have been in that position myself ! ’ says Susan , who lives with actor-turned-writer Andy de la Tour in a house they have just bought in London . |
| 13 | Lopes LJ : Speaking for myself , I think it ought to have been in that form , and probably a little bit stronger . |
| 14 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 15 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 18 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 19 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 20 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 24 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 25 | Well , I I find that totally impossible , I mean I know that , I 've been in that plot thousand of times . |
| 26 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 27 | What I am going to focus on is this terrible guilt feeling which is coming out while you 're giving me all this information , and I can see one or two nodding heads , I guess , I guess some of you 've been in that situation . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been in that sort of situation before , sitting in a dressing- room after losing to a team you 've been expected to beat . |
| 29 | I 've been in that block since it was built , it suits me fine . |
| 30 | Jesus Christ , you have been in that pit for the past three hours . |