Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [been] [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage . |
| 2 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 3 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 7 | 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 . |