Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 2 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 3 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 4 | Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools . |
| 5 | That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent . |
| 6 | Over 40,000 people staged a demonstration in Buenos Aires on Dec. 30 against the decision , which had been forecast for some time . |
| 7 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 8 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 9 | By the turn of the year , Ellison , who had been linked to some big-name clubs , was looking jaded . |
| 10 | There had been no poverty at all , no necessity to move except the necessity of a woman who had been driven by some perverse whim to deny her former husband the right to see his daughter . |
| 11 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 12 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 13 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 14 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 15 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 16 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 17 | The thought that it had been inside his mouth , touching his tongue and gums and those rather small but perfect teeth , that it had been drenched in some of his most intimate fluids gave me an erotic thrill . |
| 18 | The gallery itself looked as if it had been carved by some giant sculptor , minute details in the stonework wrought by caring as well as skilful hands . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 21 | It had been taken after some of the wettest Spring weather we had ever experienced in Norfolk . |
| 22 | At the time of the Arab invasion in 639 the population has been estimated at between 20 and 30 million , but when Napoleon invaded the decaying Ottoman Egypt in 1798 it had been reduced to some two and a half million . |
| 23 | It had been known for some time that relations between Stephenson and Villa were strained because of the player 's insistence on living in his home-town of Newcastle , and several clubs , keen to secure him , were watching the situation closely . |
| 24 | He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned . |
| 25 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 26 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 27 | as if he had been struck by some unseen force into stillness , he stopped , his right arm still embracing an imaginary figure , his left arm extended . |
| 28 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 29 | Somehow he had been infused with some of its magic — that word again , he thought wryly . |
| 30 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |