Example sentences of "had been in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was typical of the places she had been in during her Psychopomp days . |
| 2 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 3 | In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch . |
| 4 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 5 | And I saw a dear little shed that someone had made into a craft shop , and the woman said no one had been in for ages , and was n't she pleased to see me … ’ |
| 6 | With her enchanting grin , which had , sadly , not been much in evidence of late , she added , ‘ I expect Sheila from down the road had been in with her ‘ Mr Sheen ’ … ’ |
| 7 | The expansion also meant a round of promotions for the stalwarts who had been in from the beginning . |
| 8 | Most of them had been in from the start , born survivors , born leaders : amongst these lucky few were numbered Rosie Lane , an athletic , pretty , small-faced girl whose father owned a large grocer 's , and whose primal popularity h ) d been cheaply purchased by the judicious distribution of dried apricots and jelly cubes , which the girls devoured whole . |
| 9 | 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 . |