Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] some [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the certification of the flight control system is the critical path item and has been for some considerable time . |
| 2 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 3 | Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking . |
| 4 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 5 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 6 | They might also reveal that you have been in some distant shopping mall far from your usual stomping ground on a day on which you had sworn ( at least to the office ) that you had been laid up with flu . |