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Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] [been] some [noun pl] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm —
2	Same-Lamborghini 's UK importer agreed that there had been some problems with the quality of cab fittings on some early models .
3	There had been some pedals and a lever and the steering wheel , and that had been about it .
4	Military leaders in the sixteenth century who could not find wars to fight elsewhere might turn on their own sovereigns and fight at home ; there had been some decades of civil war in England after the English had been driven out of France in the middle of the fifteenth century .
5	While there had been some improvements in terms of flags and emblems , young people still do not apply for work in unsafe areas because of the serious risks involved .
6	There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order .
7	By the end of the project we could report that there had been some changes and developments in practice .
8	There had been some plants under construction for wartime-approved purposes , but in 1945 itself only 170MW of new plant had been completed , and in 1946 this could only be increased to 288MW and in 1947 to 340MW .
9	As soon as the Conservatives came into office , there had been some signals to the nationalised industries that financial disciplines were likely to displace physical controls on investment .
10	Since the victory of the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights at the Annual Labour Conference in the autumn of 1985 , there had been some signposts to Labour 's instincts on these matters .
11	Although there had been some dissenters , international approval was given through the London Dumping Convention , an annually reviewed agreement signed by forty-six countries .