Example sentences of "[verb] been some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I wake up , maybe I 'll find that , like the death of Bobby in Dallas , all the recent news has been some kind of bad dream and that labels like Sarah , Non Fiction , Play It Again Sam and Cooking Vinyl all have bands on Top Of The Pops . |
| 2 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 3 | From medieval times there must have been some kind of dwelling on the slight rise in the ground upon which the house stood . |
| 4 | There must have been some kind of remorse . |
| 5 | In between the Oaks and the Elms darted the Silver Birches , slender and frivolous-looking , with wild , shining white hair that streamed out behind them and mischievous features and trailing garments that might have been some kind of cloth , but might as easily have been simply their pale leaves . |
| 6 | In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent . |
| 7 | Here he encountered Charles I 's young daughter Elizabeth [ q.v. ] , to whom he seems to have been some kind of chaplain and with whose virtues he was much taken . |
| 8 | This is exactly the way the band saw it and , when pushed , certain employees of Rough Trade agreed that there had been some kind of promotional foul-up . |
| 9 | From Henry 's recollection of the trial , which was , admittedly , not all that clear , Young had been some kind of chemist . |
| 10 | Dinner consisted of pea soup , which Millie found quite nice — she could taste there had been some kind of pork boiled in the liquid — followed by a meat pudding . |
| 11 | There had been some kind of religious fantasy , and a possibility of homosexual tampering . |
| 12 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |
| 13 | What I 'm asking is , could there have been some kind of mistake here , at your end ? ’ |