Example sentences of "been in the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category . |
| 2 | There remained in the polytechnics ( as there had been in the former teacher training colleges ) lecturers who , having experience of teaching in primary schools , acknowledged the importance of approaching teacher education in a broader , more holistic way . |
| 3 | Many adherents of all denominations have been in the same state . |
| 4 | ‘ And I 'm sure he would have reciprocated the pleasure , mus , especially if you 'd still been in the same state of undress as you were when I left you . |
| 5 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 6 | They came from young and old , from friends and strangers , from church groups , and from families in Cleveland and Rochdale who had been in the same position themselves . |
| 7 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 8 | My clothes have always been in the same spirit as Madonna . |
| 9 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 10 | The children will not be back from their boarding school and it would have looked very odd if they had been in the same country and not together on his birthday . |
| 11 | Although the two firms are still expected to cement an agreement covering Hewlett-Packard taking a 20% stake in Taligent Inc , the Common Operating System Interface announcement is now likely to be toned down , with the participation of other firms that had been in the same swim , such as Santa Cruz Operation Inc and SunSoft Inc , looking increasingly unlikely by the day . |
| 12 | The name unlocked Peter 's memory : Coleby , a farmer 's son , had been in the same year as Peter at Plumford Grammar School . |
| 13 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 14 | It was Rufus 's younger brother Julius who had been in the same form as Adam , a rather dull , pompous boy , a sort of phoney intellectual , and they had never had much to do with one another . |
| 15 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 16 | ‘ The whole thing might not have ever got off the ground if Maxi Priest had n't been in the same room as them when I called up . |
| 17 | Little John Tomlins should have been in the same room . |
| 18 | I could have been in the same room with the murderer back at Livingstone Manor . |
| 19 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 20 | She parted her lips to tell him about Dana , then closed them again as a desperate plea from her twin made itself known as clearly as if Dana had been in the same room . |
| 21 | She groaned and turned over , hoping she would fall asleep again , but her brain insisted on relaying pictures of her twin , so vividly that Dana could have been in the same room . |
| 22 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |
| 23 | Lorraine and Kim and Megan have n't been in the same house together since Kim was married . ’ |
| 24 | Amelia may not have been in the same league as the great adventurers who scale mountain peaks , cross oceans and the icy wastes of the Antarctic and Arctic or shoot the white water rapids of unnavigable rivers , but she was a real traveller , ranked among those who actually get up and go , sacrificing security and facing the cold disdain of their bank managers . |
| 25 | If you are working fewer than 15 hours a week , you also have very few employment rights , until you have been in the same job for at least 5 years , working at least 8 hours a week . |
| 26 | In the machine shop , without Victor Wilcox to escort her , Robyn was as conspicuous in her high-fashion boots , her cord breeches and her cream-coloured quilted jacket , as some rare animal , a white doe or a unicorn , would have been in the same place . |
| 27 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |
| 28 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 29 | Has been in the same bank all the time . |
| 30 | We 've never been in the same class or anything , but we saw quite a lot of each other in the Christmas concert last year and then , well , it sort of started with that . " |