Example sentences of "had been a [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had in fact only been one occasion during those last years that Lewis could remember and he was sure Adam had only gone because there had been a promise of some shooting . |
| 2 | Such a multiple attack had been a possibility for some time . |
| 3 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 4 | In his article ‘ The New Course of Our Economic Policy ’ there had been a retreat from some of the more blatantly utopian ideas of The Economics ; gone was the euphoria ; it was now acknowledged that product exchanges and naturalisation of the economy were not an immediate prospect . |
| 5 | That night there had been a dinner for some of his London friends , they sat up late and there was a kind of wager , they went out into the park , it was a chilly night , and Simon in his evening clothes jumped into the water-piece . |
| 6 | It had been a topic of some concern , in the days when I worked fairly regularly at the Mimosa , that Stubbly always preferred to walk through Chinatown to the Piccadilly Circus Barclays , as even on a Thursday morning he could have got mugged . |