Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [det] sort " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been some sort of clandestine liaison between the lady and Darrel for some time . |
| 2 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 3 | If Frankenstein had been some sort of intelligent creepy-crawly , Ace thought , that 's the kind of monster he 'd have built . |
| 4 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 5 | There had been some sort of slight accent too . |