Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] [been] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right up until I was n't able to do any more and able to , like all engineers you get most of the men when you get to the stage where you 're not able to crawl under cars and do things like that so you you find another bu business , we went into sales and , and er accessories , stores and that I 've been in all that line in the last twenty years before I retired . |
| 2 | They might also reveal that you have been in some distant shopping mall far from your usual stomping ground on a day on which you had sworn ( at least to the office ) that you had been laid up with flu . |
| 3 | What is for sure , we need to be more active than we have been in this area if tennis is to flourish in this country . |
| 4 | Maybe they 're more cauti cautious than we have been in this country about the effect of Chernobyl . |
| 5 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 6 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |
| 7 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 8 | What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars . |
| 9 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 10 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 11 | If you have been in any of the following situations , you will have been credited with contributions ( instead of having to pay them ) : |
| 12 | Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill . |
| 13 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 14 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 15 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 16 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 17 | I mean we did n't have any damp or anything in erm our flat , but I 've been in some of the downstairs ones , where they were very very damp . |
| 18 | A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen . |
| 19 | But we have been in this type of business for longer and will score on our expertise and we will also benefit from the ability we have through branch offices to handle claims . ’ |
| 20 | But we have been in this type of business for longer and will score on our expertise and we will also benefit from the ability we have through branch offices to handle claims . ’ |
| 21 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |
| 22 | ‘ But I have watched you a little since you have been in this house . |
| 23 | She 's had it ever since she 's been in that house . |
| 24 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 25 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 26 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 27 | Was she praying for resurrection , asking the mysterious , invisible Maker of All Things to hasten the day when she and her dearly loved man would be united again as they had been in those golden days long past ? |
| 28 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |