Example sentences of "they [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 2 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 3 | Yes , they had been in love once , that was before they had children . |
| 4 | It was summer , and he walked around the beautiful gardens alone , admiring the beds of shrub-roses which had been laid out here as they had been in Josephine Bonaparte 's gardens at Malmaison . |
| 5 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 6 | Another facet : a ribbed hall of towering , icon-stencilled machine tools , littered with corpses , many of them as grotesque in death as they had been in life … |
| 7 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 8 | Each of the remaining 60,15 from each township , were asked whether they had been in contact with any of our list of ten agencies during the same prevalence study period . |
| 9 | However long they had been in Wimbledon , the suburb had not yet managed to curb their enthusiasm . |
| 10 | They had been in Loxford six months then . |
| 11 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
| 12 | The corresponding amounts at the previous year end include its assets and liabilities at that date and show the shares issued by the group to acquire it as if they had been in issue then . |
| 13 | The fittings here also looked as if they had been in service for a long time — probably salvaged from a demolition site . |
| 14 | They had been in Spain , or Italy , or France … the only thing in common was how little of the language they had learned , how monstrous the children they had had to mind had been , and how late everyone ate their meals in the evening . |
| 15 | As far as Comfort knew , they had returned to the States for the duration , although in fact they had been in London for part of the time , working for the Free French , and back in France for most of the rest . |
| 16 | I stayed with Plowman , the Consul , and his wife : they had been in Addis Ababa for the coronation and had invited me to visit them at Harar . |
| 17 | He could n't think whether they had been in bed for an hour , or four hours . |
| 18 | Fierce local loyalties and rivalries were the life-blood of the amateur football leagues just as they had been in parish recreations a century before , and this carried over into commercial spectator sport , which offered a new kind of community life and identity . |
| 19 | Amongst them , four party leaders — they had been in place for 12 , 13 and 21 years . |
| 20 | Famines had been a cyclical phenomenon in the Volga region , as they had been in Asia , for centuries . |
| 21 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
| 22 | Even in the northern counties , Scottish raids were never as frequent or as deeply penetrating as they had been in Edward II 's reign , and although the inhabitants of those counties made the most of their plight in petitions for relief from taxation , the raids in the years after 1332 did little long-term damage to the region 's economy . |