Example sentences of "had been [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly everyone , I would have guessed , had been either in the dining room or the dome car all morning . |
| 2 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |
| 3 | She had been just in time . |
| 4 | ‘ He was wanting to know if Philip had been up in Mr Hyde 's woods . ’ |
| 5 | Rostov shook his head , concealing the knowledge that he had been briefly in danger of his life . |
| 6 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 7 | Then he held out his arms and she went into them , laughing , wiping out the days they had been apart in that one eager meeting . |
| 8 | The village of Uppercross in Persuasion ( 1818 ) , for example , ‘ had been completely in the old English style ’ , two houses only showing themselves to be superior to the dwellings of yeomen and labourers : the squire 's mansion with its high walls and great gates , and ‘ the compact , tight parsonage , enclosed in its own neat garden ’ . |
| 9 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 10 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
| 11 | They still exchanged gifts and trade with the Emperor ; they still had the interest and friendship of Pope Leo , even though for a year the Pope had been not in Rome but in Germany , caught by the cry for a mediator between attacking Germany and defending Hungary ; pressed by the fighting in Italy to beg help against the triumphant Normans . |
| 12 | I had a feeling that if I had been somewhere in the midst of a mob at Madison Square Garden they would have sill got that metallic voice to talk to me . |
| 13 | She knew that her presence and unwavering support was as important to the outcome as all the physical and psychological preparation that Lennox had been through in the past few months . |
| 14 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
| 15 | When I was eventually connected with my Commander-in-Chief I was to learn that this was the first night he had been abed in 13 consecutive nights of operations . |
| 16 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 17 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 18 | When Lorton had been here in the summer , the car park was nearly full . |
| 19 | After all , the leading ministers had been continuously in office for the past ten years , and had achieved many of their declared objectives . |
| 20 | I had been away in London for the day , about three or four days after Dana 's departure . |
| 21 | While the unit had been away in the field , the usual correspondence was being exchanged between the various staffs involved , almost certainly without Stirling 's knowledge . |
| 22 | He was like an old car that had been around in the neighbourhood for a long time , loaned out among your friends , used and passed on , so that when it got to you in your time , you knew what you were getting . |
| 23 | The Court , however , ruled on March 19 , 1991 , that the Commission had been within in its powers in invoking Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome , which allowed it to override government objections in such cases [ see p. 36154 ] . |
| 24 | Peter had been outside in the wasteland . |
| 25 | And I had been once in a , a cruise liner to the Canary Islands and Madeira in nineteen thirty five . |
| 26 | She had been almost in delirium , consumed with an animal desire . |
| 27 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 28 | Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together . |
| 29 | And then Paul ; Paul had been constantly in trouble , ever since his conversion on the Damascus road . |
| 30 | It was a place he rarely went , and now he had been twice in twenty-four hours ; last night with Benny , and tonight because he was so late and fussed getting back from his useless journey to Dublin . |