Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
| 2 | His elder brother , Richard , lived nearby with his wife and young daughter , and like his father worked as a groom , possibly at nearby Waplington Hall , a large , gabled house that had been built some thirty years earlier . |
| 3 | He admired his father-in-law 's farming ability and had been given some worthwhile advice whenever they had met . |
| 4 | The presidential ceasefire commission collapsed when its secretary resigned on Aug. 26 after stating that the Aug. 7 ceasefire had been breached some 200 times and that over 70 people had been killed . |
| 5 | Government reports on Oct. 5 claimed that the Hezb-i-Islami forces had been pushed some 30 km outside the city . |