Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was here in good shape , but I 've been in good shape at other championships and failed . |
| 2 | I 've been in regular contact with Earl 's Court Project and a lot of my friends down there . |
| 3 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 4 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 5 | I travelled the country well , I 've been in other authorities both labour controlled , been in to schools , been in old peoples homes , erm seen their roads , or driven over their roads , and I can assure you , that er in Lincolnshire . |
| 6 | I 've been in worse scrapes than this . |
| 7 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 8 | Well , I I find that totally impossible , I mean I know that , I 've been in that plot thousand of times . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I 've been in that block since it was built , it suits me fine . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been in all morning . ’ |
| 14 | Now , you may not realize it but you 've been in civil litigation and criminal litigation , you 've been doing advocacy all term . |
| 15 | Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War . |
| 16 | I 've been in traditional sales . |
| 17 | K. R. I 've been in tough houses — they would n't come out to help us but they 'd form a ring and let you fight — they would n't just all join in to back somebody up . |
| 18 | Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been in this part of the country before , remember , ’ he broke off to explain at Isabel 's surprised stare . |
| 20 | Celmira : I 've been in this country for fifteen years . |
| 21 | I 've been in this position loads of times , like . |
| 22 | I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been in this situation before , where we 've needed a good result away from home only to lose 1–0 , ’ he said . |
| 24 | We 've been in this house for about twelve years |
| 25 | I 've been in this frame of mind for a long time , but no one seems to notice . ’ |
| 26 | Kerly added : ‘ I 've been in this game for 16 years . |
| 27 | You 've been in this job too long mate , you 're going senile . |
| 28 | It 's unfair , Bernard , you 've been in this job much longer than me , what do you think about this new menu for the canteen at Digby 's Ballbearings ? |
| 29 | A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen . |
| 30 | And I 've been in next door . |