Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [vb past] be [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 3 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 4 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 5 | It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning . |