Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adv] some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It had one of the best acoustic sound-dubbing rooms in Europe — they 'd been fitted out some time in the thirties to be used for putting soundtracks on to movies .
2 She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street .
3 A prestigious teaching post at Winchester had been terminated abruptly some years before , and Hugo had failed to hold another since .
4 But these people had been shot down some months ago and as the Feldwebel had told me that this was only a transit camp I knew that I was not likely to meet them here .
5 In France the direction des consulats et des affaires commerciales which had been set up some years earlier was reorganised in 1882 .
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