Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 2 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 3 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 4 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 5 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 6 | He had big banks of lights and speakers on either side of his console with some lower-level relays here in the ballroom ; he 'd been running some smoke and dry ice earlier , and some of it still hung in the air and gave the lighted area beyond the doorways the effect of some offworld film set . |
| 7 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 8 | Some sort of ex-military man who 'd been having some rather rough games with some of the boys . |
| 9 | But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that . |
| 10 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 11 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 12 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 13 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
| 14 | His elder brother , Richard , lived nearby with his wife and young daughter , and like his father worked as a groom , possibly at nearby Waplington Hall , a large , gabled house that had been built some thirty years earlier . |
| 15 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 16 | The teacher had been sent some worksheets to try out . |
| 17 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 18 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |
| 19 | Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse . |
| 20 | Lord Wittisham and Miss Fenwick had been to collect some food — the quails I believe — and were passing in a donkey cart as Sir Thomas arrived . |
| 21 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 22 | He admired his father-in-law 's farming ability and had been given some worthwhile advice whenever they had met . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 25 | Also , domestication of dogs and cattle had been undertaken some twelve hundred years ago in southern Europe by Azilian hunters who had used dogs to corner their prey . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 28 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 29 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 30 | 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 . |