Example sentences of "the [noun sg] had been [verb] some " in BNC.
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1 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
2 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
3 | The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage . |
4 | The teacher had been sent some worksheets to try out . |
5 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
6 | He felt sure the man had been paid some sort of allowance for putting him up , but it did n't look as if any of it was going to be spent on food . |
7 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
8 | The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today . |