Example sentences of "[verb] [be] in [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reason they 're mixed up he , he must 've been in there messing about with them . |
| 2 | We travel back and forth all the time between Canada and England , and my husband has been in nearly every country of the world on business . |
| 3 | She spoke with the air of an old warrior who has been in so many battles that bravery has become commonplace . |
| 4 | If you ask in general , why social science has been in so selective in its use of Freud , and so one-sided in its interpretation , the answer seems to be , that since the nineteen twenties and up until very recently , Western social science has been primarily dominated by what I would call , cultural determinism , and by that I mean , a school of thought which believes that , to use a term borrowed from one of its founding fathers , Emile Durkheim , social facts have social causes . |
| 5 | Whilst colleges continue to offer HCIMA courses by part-time , block release and in special cases full-time study , by far the greatest development has been in more flexible study modes using the distance learning , self-study packs . |
| 6 | But it is not the tampons that cause the disease but the bacteria which develops when a tampon has been in too long . |
| 7 | Once accorded head-of-state treatment throughout the Arab world , Mr Arafat has been in sharply reduced circumstances since his ill-judged support for Saddam Hussein during the Gulf crisis . |
| 8 | But the trend in the motor industry at large has been in quite the opposite direction to the Chapman philosophy ; cars have not become lighter over the years but noticeably heavier and more complex . |
| 9 | It was the Richard Branson that would throw anybody in a swimming-pool — literally and metaphorically — often forgetful of the cost , be it of a junior employee 's ruined wristwatch or an editor 's dignity ( the watch could be paid for afterwards : dignity was harder to repair ) ; the Richard Branson that , when playing wicket-keeper in a company cricket match , would tie cotton round the bails and then ‘ when the batsman has been in long enough ’ yank them off with a roar of laughter , all the more resounding for the look of fury on the fallguy 's face . |
| 10 | Erm I mean everything yo you can buy is in here . |
| 11 | Many users modify existing style sheets but this can bring along huge amounts of excess styling information that you either do n't want or had forgotten was in there . |
| 12 | Nothing she 'd care to trust too far , but it made the atmosphere a lot easier than the last time she 'd been in here with the door closed . |
| 13 | She 'd been in here for at least fifteen minutes , maybe longer . |
| 14 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
| 15 | She had no idea she 'd been in there so long . |
| 16 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 17 | There was n't gon na be single parent families with three children , er living above an old age pensioner who 'd been in there from the word go . |
| 18 | However fourteen days later they were still pulling out er live babies and they 'd been in there in the rubble for fourteen days . |
| 19 | Yeah she 'd been in there about seven or eight months I think . |
| 20 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 21 | Then the , the Assistant Secretary for Education was erm a very interesting chap erm he was a Mr A O D and erm he was , he had erm an elementary school background , he had n't a degree or any qualification but he 'd been in so long that er he 'd worked his way up to erm , s erm to Assistant Secretary for Education and he was a jolly chap and erm and he produced a , a dictionary of erm , of the Suffolk dialect which has became quite erm , quite a classic work really |
| 22 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 23 | She could go on to the other station but she says I enjoy being in so much I use it . |
| 24 | Otherwise it would have been in here . ’ |
| 25 | It had a vague familiarity to it , and she wondered if she might have been in here before . |
| 26 | Without papal assistance , crown finances would have been in even more desperate straits than in fact they were . |
| 27 | might have been in there to look at someone else , to talk with a club owner or having a drink . |
| 28 | He would have been in there swinging with the best . |
| 29 | I feel sure that someone I know must have been in there . |
| 30 | Gerald said : ‘ I suppose somebody could have been in there doing the old man while I was trying to get in . |