Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Endill learnt he had been in the army but was told to leave after forgetting who he was fighting for . |
| 2 | Maggie realized she 'd been in the wrong . |
| 3 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 4 | But one worker confirmed they had been in the office and seemed to be completely genuine . |
| 5 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 6 | Dr McGarry claimed it had been in response to the earlier statement and he welcomed the decision . |
| 7 | The judge said that Alan Murray claimed he had been in the welfare section of the UVF but he said : ‘ Membership of any proscribed organisation is a most serious matter . ’ |
| 8 | On board was a Maltese deck passenger who boasted he had been in nine different prisons in England ; after we had sailed a friend of his was discovered stowed away in the chain locker . |
| 9 | Connolly denied the charges but the court heard that swabs taken from his hands indicated he had been in contact with explosives and that he was found in possession of a key to the front door of the second house . |
| 10 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I thought I had been in time . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | , see I got very pally with old , , we use to play snooker together that 's how I first met him and then we went there , and I never knew he 'd been in the cos I transferred to the R E's you see . |
| 14 | Those at the exiled Court became hopelessly out of touch with political realities in post-Revolutionary England ; many of them were living in the world as they thought it had been in the late 1680s , and their platform increasingly appeared to have less and less relevance to the new problems facing England . |
| 15 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 16 | One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago . |
| 17 | The Membership List revealed he 'd been in his present parish for six years , was unmarried , had written a book , The Railways of Norfolk , 1890 to 1940 , published by Jarrolds , and was , in addition to being Vicar of St Clements Bestwick , chaplain to the Sisters of St Sylvester , East Soken , near Diss . |
| 18 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The programme notes said you 'd been in Cats . ’ |
| 20 | Andrea McKemsley said she 'd been in the takeaway on the night David Nock died . |
| 21 | Emily , swimming vigorously , came to assist her , and together they managed to reach shallow water , where Gwendolen promptly denied she had been in danger . |
| 22 | Half the drivers surveyed said they 'd been in a skid … most reckon they can handle one |
| 23 | The evil wind that bombed Manhattan 's World Trade Center nevertheless blew some good to the disaster recovery specialists : SunGard Data Systems Inc says it has been contacted by four subscriber companies seeking disaster recovery services following the blast — two in Four World Trade Center , one in Two World Trade Center and one in One World Trade Center ; and Comdisco Inc said it is providing disaster recovery services to three financial services companies hit by the blast , while IBM Corp 's disaster recovery unit said it had been in touch with ‘ a lot ’ of its customers , but that so far none of its customers had had to declare their workplaces to be disaster areas . |
| 24 | Roderick Hunt , defending Brooklyn , said he had been in custody for five weeks . |