Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] [be] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
| 2 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 3 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 4 | The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage . |
| 5 | The teacher had been sent some worksheets to try out . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The tree has been removed some time since . |
| 8 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 9 | He felt sure the man had been paid some sort of allowance for putting him up , but it did n't look as if any of it was going to be spent on food . |
| 10 | The project has been drawn some criticism , however , from those who argue that it does not take sufficient account of the interests of local tribal people . |
| 11 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 14 | The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today . |
| 15 | What I want the reader to do is question some of the theories at present circulating in the carp world . |