Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 2 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 3 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 4 | And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ . |
| 5 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 6 | At the end of Chapter 3 it was pointed out that the 1960s had seen a series of reform proposals in British government and that by 1980 most of these had been carried out in some form though the question of devolution had still to be settled . |
| 7 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 8 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 9 | Worse still , the dish has probably been cleaned out with some form of modern detergent . |
| 10 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 11 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 12 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 13 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 14 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 15 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 16 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 17 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 18 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 19 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 21 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 22 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 23 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 24 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 25 | However months later he was able to start talking about his wife and the fact that they had not been getting on for some time and had begun divorce proceedings . |
| 26 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 27 | She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations . |
| 28 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 29 | Special police units have been set up in some areas , usually but not always staffed by women police officers . |
| 30 | At the year end the combined membership reached 308 thus exceeding the magic 300 , yet the trading surplus was only £15 , with a mere £130 on capital account , although new greens at the 6th and 8th had been laid out at some cost . |