Example sentences of "he had [be] [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned .
2 He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low .
3 I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought .
4 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 .
5 The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek .
6 Somehow he had been infused with some of its magic — that word again , he thought wryly .
7 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 ?
8 He sounded embarrassed , as though he had been caught in some misdemeanour .
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