Example sentences of "been [vb pp] in [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fido has been booked in to the kennels down the road and Fluffy has Mrs Jones coming in to feed her — but what about the fish ? |
| 2 | These horses are part-Arab , part-Basque and part-English , the English blood having been mixed in on the orders of Napoleon 1 , while the Arab strain has been traced , perhaps fancifully , to the horses left behind by the Saracens , who were badly defeated near here in the eighth century . |
| 3 | Agricultural details were a nice reciprocal touch : the Hind helicopters , with which the Sandinistas were destroying the contras , had allegedly been shipped in by the Russians in crates labelled agricultural produce . |
| 4 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 5 | In all experiments on toroidal discharges neutrons have been observed in about the numbers to be expected if thermonuclear reactions were proceeding . |
| 6 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 7 | Businessmen working away from home frequently describe the tension on their return when their partners , who have been shut in with the children all week , suggest going out for dinner . |