Example sentences of "he [verb] been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 2 | ‘ In other words he has been taken in by all this ‘ financial advice ’ and guidance . |
| 3 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 4 | His brow cleared after the terrific mental exercise he 'd been putting in . |
| 5 | When he felt brave enough he took off the old pullover and the tracksuit pants that he 'd been sleeping in and started to dress . |
| 6 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 7 | She was on holiday after all , and it certainly seemed as though that was what he 'd been indulging in while waiting for his ladyfriend to return . |
| 8 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 9 | If he 'd been thrown in as he was , he 'd have sunk for a bit , and then probably come up again . |
| 10 | He had been listening in . |
| 11 | He was a wandering Jew , a refugee , driven out of the land he had been born in . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been swinging in and out of consciousness for several days . |
| 15 | Now that the first shock was wearing off , he was beginning to feel annoyed , angered by the position he had been put in . |
| 16 | Howard leapt to his feet from the chair he had been sitting in . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He dressed carefully in the brown suit he had been married in and he bought the ticket with quiet authority . |
| 22 | ‘ Resistance probably undermined by this hot climate you tell me he 's been living in . |
| 23 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 24 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 25 | Right , I just thought the Chair would like to thank Councillor for the immense amount of work I know that he 's been putting in over certain things that have been going on lately and I now take councillors ' questions if any of you got any for me . |