Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |
| 2 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 3 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 4 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 5 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 6 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 7 | Dad normally would n't have been out in such madness , but there he was , this grey-haired man just over five feet tall , going into a phone-box when we had a working telephone in our hall . |
| 8 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 9 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 10 | Then he held out his arms and she went into them , laughing , wiping out the days they had been apart in that one eager meeting . |
| 11 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 12 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |