Example sentences of "[noun] have been in that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death . |
| 2 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 3 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
| 4 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 5 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 6 | ‘ I mean , maybe Scotland Yard have been in that area . ’ |
| 7 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |
| 8 | Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night . |
| 9 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |