Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 2 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 3 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 4 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 5 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 6 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 7 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 8 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 9 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 10 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 11 | Was she praying for resurrection , asking the mysterious , invisible Maker of All Things to hasten the day when she and her dearly loved man would be united again as they had been in those golden days long past ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery . |
| 14 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 15 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 16 | He had been in many tight spots during his life , and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly . |
| 17 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |
| 18 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 19 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 20 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 21 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 22 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 23 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 24 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |
| 25 | From his account Bahdu was where he had been in most danger . |