Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] some [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
| 2 | On Aug. 19 Joint Political and Military Commission ( CCPM ) observers reported that the situation remained tense , and expressed dismay that recommendations to end the violence , which had been made some days earlier , had yet to be implemented . |
| 3 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 6 | This photograph , of a doctor , was one that had been taken some time previously to illustrate an article on long hours worked by junior doctors . |
| 7 | Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier . |
| 8 | But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before . |
| 9 | The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage . |