Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 2 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 3 | Erm mine 's good but Martin 's been having some back trouble . |
| 4 | Lord Wittisham and Miss Fenwick had been to collect some food — the quails I believe — and were passing in a donkey cart as Sir Thomas arrived . |
| 5 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 6 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 7 | But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before . |
| 8 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 9 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 10 | Already Dublin has been showing some concern , since they will be submitted as British government rather than Anglo-Irish proposals . |