Example sentences of "had been [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 3 | The teacher had been sent some worksheets to try out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 15 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 18 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 19 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 20 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 21 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 24 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , George O'Dowd , the former Blitz cloakroom attendant , had been making some progress of his own towards the altar of fame . |
| 26 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 27 | This photograph , of a doctor , was one that had been taken some time previously to illustrate an article on long hours worked by junior doctors . |
| 28 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 29 | Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier . |
| 30 | 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 . |