Example sentences of "[vb past] be in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 6 | The years that followed were in many respects his heyday . |
| 7 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 8 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 9 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 10 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 11 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 12 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 13 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 14 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
| 15 | The 2nd Battalion , Royal Regiment of Fusiliers , was then the infantry battalion in the ACE Mobile Force , and had been in that role since May 1987 . |
| 16 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 17 | She supposed most normal people in a situation like the one she and Alan had been in all day , would have ended up in bed together , here in this comfortable bed at Rose Cottage . |
| 18 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 19 | Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt . |
| 20 | Among those who regarded Faustus as their spiritual master was Sidonius , whose brother had been in some way saved by the bishop . |
| 21 | Sentencing McPherson , the judge , Lord Cameron , said he accepted that McPherson had been in some part less responsible for the violence to Mr O'Donnell that evening , but added : ‘ Nevertheless you played a full part in luring him into the hands of those who were responsible for repeated acts of a bizarre and terrible character upon him . ’ |
| 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 | Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar . |
| 24 | At the end of the sixteenth century the ‘ crowned republic ’ of Poland had been in some ways one of the great powers of Europe . |
| 25 | The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time . |
| 26 | Merlin had been in these parts , Joseph Robinson had told him . |
| 27 | If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 30 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |