Example sentences of "they have been [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 2 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 3 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 4 | They have been members of some very dodgy Latvian old-pais club but nothing else is known . |
| 5 | CRIME-HIT small firms are demanding more powers for the police and courts today after a survey found that almost 50pc of them have been victims of some sort of crime . |