Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [det] kind " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been some kind of engineer .
2 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 .
3 From Henry 's recollection of the trial , which was , admittedly , not all that clear , Young had been some kind of chemist .
4 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 .
5 There had been some kind of religious fantasy , and a possibility of homosexual tampering .
6 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 .
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