Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 2 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 4 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 5 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 6 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 7 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 8 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 9 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 10 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 11 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 12 | The other features , the mouth , the ears , and especially the nose , had been blurred in some fashion by the surgeon 's knife . |
| 13 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 14 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 15 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 16 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 17 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 18 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 19 | He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned . |
| 20 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 21 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 22 | Maurin had been involved to some degree in everything that had happened . |
| 23 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 24 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 25 | Although the wording indicates that this had given rise to " considerable discussion " , implying that these methods had been questioned by some present , and the phrase " it was unwise to make any further interpretation " implies that those methods should not be spelled out too explicitly , the clear conclusion of the conference was that the policy being followed by 5 Corps should be given full backing . |
| 26 | The AEEU Scottish organiser , Harry McLevy , said he thought both sides had been inching towards some sort of agreement . |
| 27 | Here we know that the enclosure of the open fields began in the 1570s , and had been completed by some date in the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 29 | There is little doubt also that within the DES the binary solution had been canvassed for some time , and throughout the life of the Robbins Committee interest in it was being shown in the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes and elsewhere . |
| 30 | All of his staff had been damaged in some way , but for those who were shy , or clever enough to hide themselves from Lennon 's advance . |