Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
| 2 | His elder brother , Richard , lived nearby with his wife and young daughter , and like his father worked as a groom , possibly at nearby Waplington Hall , a large , gabled house that had been built some thirty years earlier . |
| 3 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 4 | The teacher had been sent some worksheets to try out . |
| 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 | Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse . |
| 7 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 8 | He admired his father-in-law 's farming ability and had been given some worthwhile advice whenever they had met . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |
| 11 | Also , domestication of dogs and cattle had been undertaken some twelve hundred years ago in southern Europe by Azilian hunters who had used dogs to corner their prey . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 16 | The presidential ceasefire commission collapsed when its secretary resigned on Aug. 26 after stating that the Aug. 7 ceasefire had been breached some 200 times and that over 70 people had been killed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Government reports on Oct. 5 claimed that the Hezb-i-Islami forces had been pushed some 30 km outside the city . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before . |
| 25 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 26 | He felt sure the man had been paid some sort of allowance for putting him up , but it did n't look as if any of it was going to be spent on food . |
| 27 | An astonishing repair of sorts had been effected some time in the last century : a young fruit tree was nailed vertically to the back of the panel and held in place with iron bands . |
| 28 | The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage . |
| 29 | As she stopped a few feet away from them she saw that his cap had been knocked some distance from where he lay and the force of the blow , which had thrown him through the air , had dislodged his fountain pen from his pocket . |
| 30 | This consisted of a milk bottle filled with water to which had been added some lemon juice , and four rounds of Vienna bread , which should have contained beef , but it had run out . |