Example sentences of "we [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been in make-up and when we were n't called he said , ‘ Right , Dennis , open the bar . ’ |
| 2 | There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , years and years ago , after we 'd been in Italy a matter of fifteen months or so . ’ |
| 4 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 5 | When we had been in Manchester only a week , a week of arduous rehearsals and long hours , Vicky could keep little food down and , frantic with worry for her , I urged her to go home now . |
| 6 | We returned to Makassar from the Toraja highlands with dangerously diminished funds , realizing that we had been in Celebes for two months and that the chances of finding a prahu which could carry us the nearly two thousand miles to the Aru Islands were remote . |
| 7 | In the 23 hours we had been in transit on a scheduled 32-hour flight from London Heathrow , we had become fairly observant . |
| 8 | Simultaneously we had been in touch with Sir Hubert and had discovered that he did indeed give an interview to the representative in London and had spoken ‘ off the cuff ’ to quite an extent but not justifying the outright statement attributed to him . |
| 9 | But he was not discontented now : we had been in Fe– two days and he was airing his local knowledge to impress Flora , who had just arrived . |