Example sentences of "somebody had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ? |
| 2 | Somebody had been picnicking there do you see , in the warren and left some bottles there . |
| 3 | Somebody had been looking for something . |
| 4 | The telephone was in one piece there were no bloodstains no signs of what they still call ‘ foul play ’ as if somebody had been kicked behind the referee 's back . |
| 5 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |
| 6 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 7 | Somebody had been reading a paper there , which apparently happened quite often , Penelope learned , and they usually finished at about this time . |
| 8 | For some reason quite beyond Harry 's comprehension , somebody had been thrown from a window in Prague in the year of grace 1618 and this had provoked thirty years of bloody conflict all over Europe . |
| 9 | ‘ The police got a phone call saying somebody had been murdered in the Kurhotel . ’ |
| 10 | And that night steals some milk and er sure enough it did come and then when the witch woken up in the morning and found out that somebody had been milking the cow she said er whoever stealing the milk will never work for six month . |
| 11 | It looked as if somebody had been giving the place a pretty thorough airing , and it was n't too hard to guess who . |
| 12 | Somebody had been shopping with her now . |