Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] [verb] some " in BNC.

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1 Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were .
2 I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy .
3 I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs .
4 Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period .
5 The last thing I wanted was to make some hasty move which might invalidate my claims to a large share of our joint estate .
6 She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident .
7 All she did was get some friends to help a friend , and now look what 's happened .
8 She had been widowed some time when we met . ’
9 The last thing she wanted was to have some overbearing man muscling in .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area .
13 These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres .
14 When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for .
15 And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going .
16 The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so .
17 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 .
18 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 . ’
19 anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 .
23 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 .
24 It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled .
25 On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital .
26 The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement .
27 He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship .
28 He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders .
29 Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale .
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