Example sentences of "[verb] be in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 2 | Their song is of regret and exile , its core the oxymoron of ‘ this far land ’ — ‘ this ’ land is the real land , Middle-earth , ‘ far land ’ ought to be the one Elbereth is in beyond the Seas . |
| 3 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
| 4 | Madeira can claim to have been in at the birth of modern tourism , along with such famous nineteenth-century resorts as Baden-Baden , the Italian Lakes and the French Riviera . |
| 5 | " We in Christian Aid are proud to have been in at the start of this magazine which campaigns relentlessly for a better , fairer , environmentally purer and politically more aware world . |
| 6 | The expansion also meant a round of promotions for the stalwarts who had been in from the beginning . |
| 7 | Most of them had been in from the start , born survivors , born leaders : amongst these lucky few were numbered Rosie Lane , an athletic , pretty , small-faced girl whose father owned a large grocer 's , and whose primal popularity h ) d been cheaply purchased by the judicious distribution of dried apricots and jelly cubes , which the girls devoured whole . |
| 8 | The fame of mind I 've been in from the beginning , ’ he says , ‘ is a belief in the spirit : it moves me , it 's in my heart . |