Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [be] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 2 | The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage . |
| 3 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
| 4 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 5 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 6 | The teacher had been sent some worksheets to try out . |
| 7 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
| 8 | If he did n't answer the leg , he got a quick reminder from the schooling whip — something I should have done but had chickened out of because Skipper 's reaction to a schooling whip had been to throw some rather impressive bucks . |
| 9 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 10 | He felt sure the man had been paid some sort of allowance for putting him up , but it did n't look as if any of it was going to be spent on food . |
| 11 | Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As she stopped a few feet away from them she saw that his cap had been knocked some distance from where he lay and the force of the blow , which had thrown him through the air , had dislodged his fountain pen from his pocket . |
| 14 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 15 | The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today . |