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

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1 On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital .
2 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 .
3 anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me
4 Some sort of ex-military man who 'd been having some rather rough games with some of the boys .
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 The last thing she wanted was to have some overbearing man muscling in .
7 But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that .
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