Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 2 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 4 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 5 | Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools . |
| 6 | It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant . |
| 7 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 8 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 9 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 10 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 11 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 12 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 13 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 14 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 15 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 16 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 17 | The other features , the mouth , the ears , and especially the nose , had been blurred in some fashion by the surgeon 's knife . |
| 18 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 19 | The refugees also claimed that water and electricity supplies had been cut in some parts of Kuwait City but not in others . |
| 20 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 21 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 22 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 23 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |
| 24 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 25 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 26 | He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned . |
| 27 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 28 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 29 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 30 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |