Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 2 | And I think er Well Pat and I have discussed that a little bit as well , cos I 've been under some pressure in this direction with Alice . |
| 3 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 4 | Well I hope I 've been of some help . |
| 5 | And I hope that I 've been of some assistance . |
| 6 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 7 | The last thing I wanted was for some motorist to hit one of my owls just when it was establishing itself . |
| 8 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
| 9 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 10 | Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill . |
| 11 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 12 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 14 | However , those who are unemployed , especially if they have been for some time , may find it is more important to send out as many letters as possible , in the hope of getting some response . |
| 15 | They have been in some ways too successful . |
| 16 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 17 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
| 18 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 19 | Saying fantastic erm and then you can say look , as it 's been of some benefit do you remember what I said earlier ? |
| 20 | and the money for your daughter in the future so do you feel that it 's been of some benefit to you today to have had this discussion ? |
| 21 | So you feel it 's been of some benefit to you today ? |