Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
2 | He had big banks of lights and speakers on either side of his console with some lower-level relays here in the ballroom ; he 'd been running some smoke and dry ice earlier , and some of it still hung in the air and gave the lighted area beyond the doorways the effect of some offworld film set . |
3 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
4 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
5 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
8 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
9 | It 's obvious that he 's been sent some kind of message , and I believe in these things . |
10 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |
11 | He 's been showing some Americans round Oxford this morning — and he 's got a lecture this afternoon , so … |