Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 2 | Erm mine 's good but Martin 's been having some back trouble . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Already Dublin has been showing some concern , since they will be submitted as British government rather than Anglo-Irish proposals . |