Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] some [noun sg] " 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 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Worse still , the dish has probably been cleaned out with some form of modern detergent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had been lucky so far ; she had not yet been caught , not yet been dragged off to some shrink and asked for explanations . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 11 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 12 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 13 | The idea may have been worked out with some care or , at the other extreme , it may have been put up spontaneously at a meeting convened to discuss the content of a future programme of activity . |
| 14 | Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 . |
| 15 | It seems they had been beaten up in some way by other prisoners but we do not know who . ’ |
| 16 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |