Example sentences of "been in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I listened in even though I had heard most of it before and then we were told that anybody who had never been in a canoe before had to carry out capsize drills . |
| 2 | do n't fri you know when you sit on your bottom in a canoe and that , you 've not probably been in a canoe |
| 3 | I remember one British Open at Turnberry , we were playing the 16th and Tom had been in a burn . |
| 4 | Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care . |
| 5 | ‘ However , he damaged his spine over twenty years ago , after being thrown from his horse , and has been in a wheelchair ever since . ’ |
| 6 | Jessica Charles-Jones also from Wantage has been in a wheelchair since an accident in 1988 . |
| 7 | Oh she 's been in a wheelchair for years . |
| 8 | ‘ Valerie and I have been in a relationship for five years now . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been in a recession before and come through it and we 'll do it again . ’ |
| 10 | He looked so innocent that Mrs Maylie said , ‘ This child could never have been in a gang of robbers ! ’ |
| 11 | I 'd never been in a helicopter in my life ; you think , ‘ This is alright , ’ until you get in the bloody thing ! |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never been in a helicopter , and now I probably never will . |
| 13 | For the last week he 's been in a hospice with terminal cancer . |
| 14 | They represent enemy ships sunk by torpedoes , and the crossed guns on the left means they 've been in a surface action — that 'd be when they got the German destroyer — and the dagger below is a special operation . ’ |
| 15 | And I think what I was trying to say , get over last time was that this has been in a sense practically inverted in American politics today . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It makes a lot of difference cos if you 've been in a church hall before ! |
| 18 | Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp warns that earnings per share for the third quarter to March 27 will be ‘ significantly below ’ consensus analysts ' expectations which have been in a range of $0.20 to $0.26 a share , as a direct result of severe price declines in the 3.5″ hard disk drive business : the company says it does not see a significant decline in unit demand and that demand from its key OEM customers is getting stronger and says it is comfortable with revised analyst estimates , in the $0.05 to $0.10 per share range ; ‘ To the best of our ability we will not participate ’ in the price wars , it said . |
| 19 | It was possible she had never been in a tunnel before , except perhaps in a car going quickly through some underpass . |
| 20 | That day her bridal gown had been delivered , and the servants had been in a flurry of activity preparing the wedding banquet . |
| 21 | Its most obvious use would have been in a pharmacy . |
| 22 | The girl has been in a council children 's home and with foster parents since being made a ward of court . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It applies to all goods in the categories listed in the box , irrespective of the time they have been in a country . |
| 26 | ‘ Her first words to the judge were : ‘ Your honour , may I compose myself , I have never been in a court room before . ’ |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Have you been in a catapult before ? ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Had I been in a vehicle I could have gone back , but on foot it was not worth risking the wasted energy . |