Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] in [noun sg] " 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 | I 'd been in Drake Hall a week . |
| 3 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |
| 4 | It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Well , I had been in bed and asleep earlier in the night . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had been in hospital for about two days when they told me my tumour was malignant . |
| 13 | I had been in television studios before but never with a live audience , so that was a bit different . |
| 14 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ I thought I had been in time . ’ |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But if you 'd been in trial in America |
| 20 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 21 | She 'd been in touch with Tim Dunton , of course . |
| 22 | Her own business needed her attention , but she 'd been in touch with her manager , and everything was under control . |
| 23 | She 'd been in front , but then the horse fell and seemed to land on top of her . |
| 24 | One night as she lay in bed with her husband , she heard ‘ a sound of melody so sweet and delectable , that she thought she had been in paradise ’ . |
| 25 | For a while she had been in paradise ; now it was over . |
| 26 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 27 | She had been in love with Alexander . |
| 28 | She had projecting teeth and told everyone who would listen that she had been in love with Yorick since she was twelve . |
| 29 | Of course she had been in love , for years and years , and perhaps , she sometimes wondered , that experience had spoiled her . |
| 30 | A picture of her as she had been in life came up on the screen . |