Example sentences of "[pron] had be [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 2 | Meredith lunged out in a desperate attempt to save their contents only to find her feet slipping on the melted snow which had been walked in from outside . |
| 3 | Manchester , Liverpool do n't get on very well and there was a drugs problem , a very bad drugs problem er which had been brought in from their normal way of life outside . |
| 4 | Our Life President , Lady Sybil Clampe , was unable to be with us because she had been hemmed in by an inconsiderate BMW in the station car park in Swindon , but she gave a rousing presidential address over her car phone . |
| 5 | What Alice could not forgive herself was that she had been taken in by it all well , she had had the sense to get out in time , and meet people who could lead her on the right path … |
| 6 | Apparently , she had been taken in by the Madam who ran the house , a woman called Bella Cohen , who adopted her almost as her daughter , by personally , I always found it hard to believe myself . " |
| 7 | She had been taken in by the man , accepting him as charming company when they first met , playing along with his flattering nonsense . |
| 8 | She had been thrown in at the deep end and it was a question of sink or swim . |
| 9 | With al-Kassar 's blessing , he met the Magharians in Bern and Zurich to set up accounts for his family , each meeting taped and monitored by Coleman 's assistant Syrian George , who had been flown in from Cyprus for this purpose . |
| 10 | George Dinsdale , stationed at Redcar , said the man , known only as a Mr Kirwan of Lumley Street , Redcar , jumped into the water near a slipway to rescue a youth who had been dragged in by a huge wave . |
| 11 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 12 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the then Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 13 | Their agreement made no mention , however , of the interim government led by academic and former opposition politician Amos Sawyer [ see pp. 31282 ; 32297 for his chairmanship of national constitutional commission in 1981-83 ; pp. 33322-23 ; 34146 for his arrest in August 1984 and subsequent detention while chairman of the Liberian People 's Party ] , who had been sworn in as Prime Minister on Nov. 22 under ECOWAS auspices . |
| 14 | President : Abdur Rahman Biswas , formerly Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad , was elected by its members in October 1991 to replace Acting President Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been sworn in as head of a transitional Council of Advisers in December 1990 [ see pp. 37907 ; 38152 ; 38533 ] . |
| 15 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 16 | Mahmood Ali was appointed Governor of Madhya Pradesh on Jan. 31 , 1990 , replacing Sarla Grewal , who had been sworn in in March 1989 [ see p. 36695 ] . |
| 17 | The gift was by way of an invitation for the Prince and Princess both to become patrons of the appeal ; it was the idea of professional fund-raiser Marion Allford , who had been brought in as the appeal director . |
| 18 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 19 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 20 | The Kingston match had a similar pattern , except that England batted first because they had been put in by Lloyd . |
| 21 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 22 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 23 | But this dog , known as a Mexican hairless , landed him in court when trading standards officers in Felixstowe discovered it had been brought in without a licence . |
| 24 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 25 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 26 | Fortunately he had been taken in by his mother 's father up to the age of six , living in a cottage by Denbigh castle ; but after this grandfather died he spent nine years as a child in St Asaph workhouse . |
| 27 | Wilde , she argued , was in a state of insanity owing to the shock to his self-esteem of prison , ‘ and the exposure of the abnormal and filthy practises which he had been indulging in with stable boys ’ . |
| 28 | In 1855 he had been brought in as a partner to Beyer & Peacock 's Gorton factory in Manchester , recently built for the manufacture of railway locomotives , and he maintained an active role in the management of Beyer , Peacock & Co. until his death . |
| 29 | He had been brought in by the conglomerate owners , Reed International , who were planning to float the Mirror Group off as a separate company and wanted someone to mastermind the move . |
| 30 | If anything had been brought in for you it had to be handed in at the screws ' table , and they had to sign the property book . |