Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 31 | But in doing so , he stood the traditional ‘ toxic mix ’ theory on its head by claiming that prison order was rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences , even suggesting that at Wymott ‘ a more stable inmate population might have been achieved if the predominantly young and short-term population had been diluted with some older men or those with longer to serve ’ ( para 7.09 ) . |
| 32 | Sharpe remembered that Lucille , who had loyally left France to stay at his side , had been invited to some fashionable and expensive ball that was supposed to take place in Brussels this night . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | A sketch of the houses on the north side of the west end of Crown Street made by T. H. Shepherd in May 1858 shows them in the early stages of demolition , but two of his later sketches , dated March 1859 , show almost the whole south side of Fludyer Street as still standing although notice had been served on some of the occupiers as early as March 1856 . |
| 35 | He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned . |
| 36 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 37 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 38 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Airbus Industrie rejected any suggestion that the aircraft itself was to blame , but its sophisticated " fly by wire " computer system had been criticized by some experts as over-complicated , and Indian Airlines staff complained that pilots and maintenance crew had received insufficient training on the Airbus . |
| 41 | The thought that it had been inside his mouth , touching his tongue and gums and those rather small but perfect teeth , that it had been drenched in some of his most intimate fluids gave me an erotic thrill . |
| 42 | This placed an unfortunate obstacle in the path of the police who might otherwise , simply on the grounds of suspicion , make a ‘ clean sweep ’ of all known criminals — a policy that had been advocated for some years by Matthew Davenport Hill , the Recorder of Birmingham — as a sure means to guarantee the safety of the streets . |
| 43 | Maurin had been involved to some degree in everything that had happened . |
| 44 | Once of the aircraft had been fitted with some new kit and a whip aerial had been mounted on one of its bomb doors . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | It was felt that this had been actuated by some bad ( and in the company 's opinion , unfair ) publicity . |
| 50 | The AEEU Scottish organiser , Harry McLevy , said he thought both sides had been inching towards some sort of agreement . |
| 51 | Premium rises had been achieved in some areas , but other sectors had been very competitive . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | In the year since the Webster ruling invited states to pass new restricts against abortion , more than 300 bills had been formulated in some 40 states . |
| 54 | The gallery itself looked as if it had been carved by some giant sculptor , minute details in the stonework wrought by caring as well as skilful hands . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | His body had been damaged by some long distant war . |
| 60 | ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? ) |