Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 2 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 3 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 4 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 5 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 6 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 7 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |
| 8 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 9 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 10 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 11 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 12 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |