Example sentences of "had been [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was wanting to know if Philip had been up in Mr Hyde 's woods . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wolfgang Rosch , the deputy commander of the Leipzig worker 's militia , which had been out in force during recent demonstrations , admitted that members ‘ had the same concerns as the people who were on the streets ’ . |
| 7 | The child who opened the door to him was the one that had been out in the fields with his father . |
| 8 | Kahane gave him the one for the previous month , explaining that they had been out in the desert for six weeks . |
| 9 | The men at the headman 's house decided , on behalf of the village , that every dog that had been out in the night , possibly taking part in the fight and helping bring down the rabid dog , would have to be killed : and all bitches on heat , whether they 'd been inside or out , must also be killed . |
| 10 | Now , The Cheaper Sex had been out in the States for some weeks , and it seemed as if everyone under the age of twenty-one wanted a copy . |
| 11 | If you had been out in the middle of space , far from anything else , they would have stayed put . |
| 12 | The youngest children had been out in the playground ; some of them survived . |
| 13 | We joined the group that had been out in sleet and gales in December , hoping to experience a typical day 's training . |
| 14 | The jasmine had been out in Seville the year before … she hoped he 'd remember . |
| 15 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 16 | In 1825 , by which time he was 52 years of age and had been back in Australia for eleven years , a new Governor was appointed . |
| 17 | Since we had been back in Reine , Jean-Claude had stopped speaking of Montaine 's death as if it haunted him unduly . |
| 18 | It was hard not to think of life as it had been back in 1986 , or in Terry 's and Tom 's case , 1985 . |
| 19 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 20 | Maybe the flight would be aborted , as it had been back in January . |
| 21 | Ruth was n't even sure how long she had been back in Palma . |
| 22 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 23 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |