Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 2 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 3 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 6 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 7 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 11 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 14 | The document inevitably evoked much discussion within the Principality , and the WJEC , for example , responded by advocating a solution which it had been cherishing for some time , namely the creation of a small advisory body made up of representatives of three bodies : the Welsh Office ; the Welsh Counties Committee , consisting of local authority representatives ; and the WJEC . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It had been taken after some of the wettest Spring weather we had ever experienced in Norfolk . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 23 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 24 | He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned . |
| 25 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 26 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 27 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 28 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 29 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 30 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |