Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] been [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 2 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 3 | His elder brother , Richard , lived nearby with his wife and young daughter , and like his father worked as a groom , possibly at nearby Waplington Hall , a large , gabled house that had been built some thirty years earlier . |
| 4 | This photograph , of a doctor , was one that had been taken some time previously to illustrate an article on long hours worked by junior doctors . |
| 5 | ‘ Linking ’ and ‘ intrusive ’ are special cases of juncture ; this name refers to the relationship between one sound and the sounds that immediately precede and follow it , and has been given some importance in phonological theory . |
| 6 | He admired his father-in-law 's farming ability and had been given some worthwhile advice whenever they had met . |