Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 2 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 3 | Although the wording indicates that this had given rise to " considerable discussion " , implying that these methods had been questioned by some present , and the phrase " it was unwise to make any further interpretation " implies that those methods should not be spelled out too explicitly , the clear conclusion of the conference was that the policy being followed by 5 Corps should be given full backing . |
| 4 | Police and army behaviour and tactics had been improved to some extent , especially in appreciating the need for reform policies rather than simple oppression . |
| 5 | So this two bedroomed apartment in a hotel complex had been borrowed from some golfing friend of Mike 's , and here she was to stay until Mike could get her back home to London . |
| 6 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 7 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 8 | Once of the aircraft had been fitted with some new kit and a whip aerial had been mounted on one of its bomb doors . |
| 9 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 10 | Examination of records available on smoking related activity in the control schools indicated that pupils in half of the schools had been exposed to some incidental and unplanned smoking education through events such as No Smoking Day or through associated teaching in home economics or biology . |
| 11 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 12 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 13 | Our fellow-traveller had been mumbling for some time that he would ‘ hae tae get oot ! ’ . |
| 14 | In the year since the Webster ruling invited states to pass new restricts against abortion , more than 300 bills had been formulated in some 40 states . |
| 15 | Ganev and the UDF had been angered by some documents leaked in late February in an attempt to smear him , and had demanded that the secret services by placed under the control of the Interior Ministry rather than the Presidency as at present . |
| 16 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 17 | The whole place had been updated by some 25 years , with BR rectangular ‘ modern image ’ signs in white with black , mainly lower case lettering bearing the name ‘ New Cross ’ . |
| 18 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 19 | But in doing so , he stood the traditional ‘ toxic mix ’ theory on its head by claiming that prison order was rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences , even suggesting that at Wymott ‘ a more stable inmate population might have been achieved if the predominantly young and short-term population had been diluted with some older men or those with longer to serve ’ ( para 7.09 ) . |
| 20 | My trousers had been removed with some force as my right leg was in a great deal of pain around the cast . |
| 21 | He had a face that was both sensuous and battered — his nose had been broken at some time — with deep pouches under his dark eyes . |
| 22 | His body had been damaged by some long distant war . |
| 23 | Jitters had been splashed with some of the liquid fire from the grenade , but he was lucky enough to have been blown through a hole in the wall by the blast . |
| 24 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 25 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 26 | Professor Seymour-Strachey had been retired for some time now , and had left Grimsby . |
| 27 | Education had been labelled by some leading party members as the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ ( not democracy as political activists insisted ) , yet the lessons remained traditional . |
| 28 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 29 | A sketch of the houses on the north side of the west end of Crown Street made by T. H. Shepherd in May 1858 shows them in the early stages of demolition , but two of his later sketches , dated March 1859 , show almost the whole south side of Fludyer Street as still standing although notice had been served on some of the occupiers as early as March 1856 . |
| 30 | In practice Anglo-American co-operation had been increasing for some years , but this was now expanded . |