Example sentences of "man [Wh pn] [verb] been in " in BNC.

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1 What a wonderful night : thousands of people , many of them young , black and white , all there is to thank an elderly man who had been in prison longer than many at the concert had even been alive .
2 The third was to talk to the man who had been in love with Irene Pitt .
3 At the beginning of the fourth month , a young man who had been in only a few days attacked Carter with a knife .
4 He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy .
5 The experience he has gained in the mines at immediately a man g a man who has been in the mines goes down there again his er n er he gives himself away , because , just because of the experiences .
6 In the next cell there is a wild-looking man who has been in prison for 8 years , and whose long , unkempt hair has gone white .
7 Workers at a nuclear research plant are being assured they 're NOT in danger of developing prostate cancer , despite a new report claiming an increased risk for men who 've been in contact with radioactive material .
8 Billy Smallbury , one of the men who had been in the cart , climbed up with a bucket of water , to throw water on Gabriel and keep the flames off him .
9 time we 've had men who have been in war talking about the horror of war
10 There are men who have been in prison for ten years and more for claiming their liberty ; men who have slipped away to struggle overseas ; men who have escaped to Europe to carry on the fight there — they are hounded and they are imprisoned , but their views are heard .
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