Example sentences of "[pron] have been in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 2 | I 'd been in a light sleep . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been in a dark place , ’ he murmured . |
| 4 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 5 | ‘ For years I have been in a luxurious situation . |
| 6 | When I arrive somewhere I have been in a previous life , the ground greets me . |
| 7 | This option allows the user to generate a report of all Design Changes within LIFESPAN which have been in a given state since a specified date . |
| 8 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 9 | You 've been in a bad mood all day . |
| 10 | If she had been in a similar position she would also have called on the nearest colleague . |
| 11 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 12 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 13 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 14 | Among this older group 46 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more were admitted , 75 per cent of the others . |
| 15 | You can never hope to achieve the professionalism of those who have been in a single business all their lives and hence you need quickly to get to know those whose opinions you can trust . |
| 16 | ‘ Yeah , and she 's been in a few times since . |
| 17 | She 's been in a funny mood this morning . |
| 18 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 19 | What I mean by that is , when you get back to your branches , you will go onto further training programmes in branch training , developing your practice training , so each branch will vary how they sort of co-ordinate this , but let's say , we 've been in a few months now , and twice a week we 've got to go in for training . |
| 20 | For some time we 've been in a false position and our two games against Birmingham have confirmed this . |
| 21 | And greater success at wealth creation has also meant that we have been in a better position to provide practical help to those that need it . |
| 22 | But some times when I when people tell me that they 've been in a certain environment . |
| 23 | There must be armies of males squirming uncomfortably at the breakfast table , feeling they 've been in a similar movie . |
| 24 | Even those near the edge stand a better chance of survival than if they had been in a solitary nest far away in a place where local foxes can consume everything that is available . |
| 25 | He has been in a persistent vegetative state at Airedale General Hospital near Keighley , Yorkshire , ever since . |
| 26 | His body felt that it had been in a terrible accident . |
| 27 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 28 | If he had been in a sorry state , if he had needed anything , then she could have helped him , perhaps eventually told him . |
| 29 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 30 | To find a job he had to hide the fact that he had been in a mental hospital . |