Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been some disturbance there , too , when their master launched his attack . |
| 2 | This is exactly the way the band saw it and , when pushed , certain employees of Rough Trade agreed that there had been some kind of promotional foul-up . |
| 3 | There had been some kind of religious fantasy , and a possibility of homosexual tampering . |
| 4 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |
| 5 | Alida went out and stared at the empty letter cage in the hall , called sharply after the man , that there had been some mistake . |
| 6 | The last faint hope that there had been some mistake died . |
| 7 | Then , just when I was wondering if there had been some mistake , a man came up full of apologies , ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ he said . |
| 8 | In that era , notes Forster , if you had ‘ Venetian ’ tendencies , you thought it was because you were meant to be a man and that there had been some mistake . |
| 9 | Even before the Convention procedures became available , there had been some discussion of the relationship between the procedural rules of the forum and hostile attitudes encountered in foreign practice . |
| 10 | The discussion came about after the disclosure that at a recent meeting of the Southern Federation , there had been some discussion about a publication which was being produced by the police , covering details such a Treasure Trove , responsibilities of landowners and more . |
| 11 | ‘ If the parties have agreed the basis of taxation it would , I think , be an improper exercise of the court 's discretion to direct the taxation on some other basis , unless satisfied that there had been some conduct on the part of the mortgagee disentitling him to costs or to costs on the agreed basis . |
| 12 | There had been some error . |
| 13 | Same-Lamborghini 's UK importer agreed that there had been some problems with the quality of cab fittings on some early models . |
| 14 | There had been some criticism of the question and answer made by the social worker in support of the hospital admission application form on the question of practicability of getting the recommendation of a practitioner with previous acquaintance with the patient , and those responsible might wish to consider rewording the form so as to direct the social worker 's attention to the question of practicability . |
| 15 | However , there had been some deterioration in her mood over the previous 2 days . |
| 16 | The letter was brief , and couched in the most guarded terms ; it reported a half-yearly profit to the end of December , but also added that there had been some deterioration in the product and requested a fresh consignment , preferably of foreign origin . |
| 17 | Apparently there must have been very heavy rain higher up the dale because there had been some flooding and the river was running very fast . |
| 18 | There had been some pedals and a lever and the steering wheel , and that had been about it . |
| 19 | Though there had been some concern as to what the world 's reaction would be , Wilson had smoothed it over with assurances that the world community could n't deny that America had the right to protect the few hundred of its citizens in Haiti , and to defend the various mining and import/export concessions that had been granted to them . |
| 20 | There had been some concern in the early Eighties , when one of the national dailies , Today , moved its headquarters into the next-door building . |
| 21 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |
| 22 | There had been some reduction in transport costs and a degree of commercialization in the early part of the century , but not enough to break the recurrent cycle of harvest failure , food shortage , price increase , misery , and unrest . |
| 23 | However , when there had been some difficulty in getting the bidding started , the seller announced that there was nothing wrong with the heifer and he would absolutely guarantee her . |
| 24 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |
| 25 | Military leaders in the sixteenth century who could not find wars to fight elsewhere might turn on their own sovereigns and fight at home ; there had been some decades of civil war in England after the English had been driven out of France in the middle of the fifteenth century . |
| 26 | While there had been some improvements in terms of flags and emblems , young people still do not apply for work in unsafe areas because of the serious risks involved . |
| 27 | Initial reports from the site indicated that there had been some damage to buildings at the camp site , some distance from the gas plant , but that the plant itself remained unscathed . |
| 28 | There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order . |
| 29 | Government officials also confirmed that there had been some forewarning of the rebel attack but that the magnitude of it had been unexpected . |
| 30 | At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) . |