Example sentences of "had [been] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can get wetter than if you had been in a winter shower . |
| 2 | That day her bridal gown had been delivered , and the servants had been in a flurry of activity preparing the wedding banquet . |
| 3 | As she moved , her body ached as if she had been in a fight . |
| 4 | Although the LDP enjoyed an overall majority in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber of the Diet ) , it had been in a minority in the 252-seat upper chamber , the House of Councillors , since the elections of July 1989 [ see pp. 36800-01 ] . |
| 5 | She had been in a state of shock . |
| 6 | Other armies , like the Israeli and South African ones , had been in a state of armed conflict for some considerable time . |
| 7 | Since the news had spread about him working on the case , the whole of the station had been in a state of excitement . |
| 8 | Thereafter , with its circulation collapsing , it had been in a state of crisis . |
| 9 | I remember one British Open at Turnberry , we were playing the 16th and Tom had been in a burn . |
| 10 | Edwards , Manchester United 's chief executive and major shareholder , was at pains to emphasise that Knighton had been in a position to complete the deal , but had not done so ‘ in the interests of the club ’ and had at no time sought compensation . |
| 11 | Consultation with the next of kin has a further advantage in that it may reveal information as to the personal circumstances of the patient and as to the choice which the patient might have made , if he or she had been in a position to make it . |
| 12 | The Lord Chancellor had been in a position to negotiate this with the Treasury . |
| 13 | In the light of this Constantius is perhaps unlikely to have been in a position to destroy Wallia completely in 416 : Stilicho , who had been in a position at least as strong , had failed to destroy Alaric . |
| 14 | Mr McBaine said , however , that she had been in a position of trust . |
| 15 | Chief Inspector Hamish Hyslop , now a superintendent at Kilmarnock , had been in a backup van called to give assistance when the crowd , chanting : ‘ Kill the Bill , ’ had turned on police making an arrest . |
| 16 | If people had been in a building after we had been round testing it and seen it secure , they 'd come out and leave it open . |
| 17 | The storm was just triggering memories of the last time they had been in a storm together . |
| 18 | He had been in a pub in Hammersmith when a hypnotist jumped on to a low podium and put on a show . |
| 19 | If the defect had been in a component of the toaster , say the heating element , the result would still be the same unless the heating element had not been supplied as part of the toaster ( e.g. had been bought as a replacement later ) . |
| 20 | In 1939–41 furthermore , the Soviet dictator , Josef Stalin , had been in a pact with Hitler , which allowed Russia to annex the Baltic states ( Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia ) and much of Poland . |
| 21 | But if the comparison between those who had been in a home and others is confined to those for whom relatives , neighbours or friends were interviewed , there is still a difference : 31 per cent against 19 per cent . |
| 22 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 23 | The massacre victims had been in a contingent of officers deported from eastern Poland following the September 1939 Soviet occupation and interned in camps run by the NKVD ( the Soviet security service ) at Kozelsk and Ostashkov in western Russia and at Starobelsk in the Ukraine . |
| 24 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 25 | Jasper had been in a road accident a few months before the diagnosis . |
| 26 | The biggest loss I recorded was 11oz in a 9lb 5oz bream which had been in a keepnet for nine hours . |
| 27 | Wheat and barley he knew , and once he had been in a field of turnips . |
| 28 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |
| 29 | She had been in a squat in London but had thought it would be pleasant to have some sea air for the baby for the summer . |
| 30 | He said that he had been in a corner of the bar talking to the landlord and friends during the time that the incident took place . |