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

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No	Sentence
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	The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so .
3	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 .
4	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 . ’
5	anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me
6	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 .
7	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 .
8	On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital .
9	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 .
10	He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship .
11	‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders .
12	Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale .

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