Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The creamy bedroom carpet is echoed in the bathroom which has been furnished with some of the antique fixtures and fittings gleaned on Jake 's auction tours . |
| 2 | Surely , then , word would have been heard of some of them . |
| 3 | A substantial amount of prospecting may have been undertaken in some of the areas , but not necessarily for the deposit styles mentioned above . |
| 4 | Well , fortunately , new ground has been broken by some of our novelists , ground which can be husbanded by new writers . |
| 5 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |
| 6 | References have been confined to some of the more significant primary sources and to secondary sources that readers may find particularly interesting or readable . |
| 7 | EDUCATION chiefs in the Southern Education and Library Board have been stumped by some of the questions on the 11-plus exam ! |
| 8 | Any resulting sense of insecurity among the foreign communities may have been equalled in some of the upper reaches of the Iraqi establishment . |
| 9 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 10 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 11 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 12 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 14 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 15 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |
| 16 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 17 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 18 | Reference has already been made to some of these changes . |
| 19 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 20 | The Second World War has been seen by some as a kind of watershed , with the post-war period being morally inferior to the ‘ full rich back street life and culture of pre-war England ’ . |
| 21 | A titled but non-executive chairman has always been seen by some as a desirable ornament on the company 's board , and even more so on its stationery . |
| 22 | Somehow he had been infused with some of its magic — that word again , he thought wryly . |
| 23 | What might have been anticipated by some as a passage of tedious monotony was welcomed by Gould as an opportunity lull of excitement and discovery . |
| 24 | We have been accused by some of having too many features about the south of England , by others of having too many about Scotland and Wales ; of having too much mud on our boots , of romanticising the countryside , of being too green , too blue , too red , too expensive and aspirational in our tastes , too harshly realistic in our coverage of controversial issues . |
| 25 | In recent weeks the force has been accused by some in the Protestant community of being ineffective in the fight against the IRA , and by some Catholics of being less vigorous in tackling loyalist violence . |
| 26 | However , the Commission did not find evidence of deaths having resulted from deliberate brutality by police or prison officers , as had been alleged by some of the victims ' families . |
| 27 | This school was to have been patronised by some of the first noblemen and gentlemen of the country , and Clark had the fullest assurance that the government would aid and support his venture . |
| 28 | There are no objections to this application , though an alternative to the flat roof would have been preferred by some of the councillors . |
| 29 | The words " in relation to " referred to in the third limb do not appear in the section but it seems to the author that the reference to " any benefit to him by contract or otherwise " must relate in some way to the gifted property , and a conclusion along those lines seems to have been drawn in some of the old estate duty cases ( see Chick v Commissioners of Stamp Duties [ 1958 ] AC 435 at 447 ) . |
| 30 | Quinn has been interpreted by some as suggesting that his form of incrementalism leads to a steady emergence of change . |