Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] been some " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have been some forty minutes late , and as she had no intention of ringing home to leave a message , Parr would be in a quandary . |
| 2 | For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold . |
| 3 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 4 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 5 | It must have been some bender ! |
| 6 | I was surprised to see that the recording venue was good old Abbey Road Studios : there is such a prominent background rumble that I had assumed it must have been some city church . |
| 7 | It must have been some challenge to oversee that . |
| 8 | It must have been some time in August when I took those pictures , Rufus thought , and a couple of weeks later it was all over . |
| 9 | And it must have been some comfort to her , a few months later , to receive a picture of Anna , healthy , happy , as she could never have been in the orphanage . |
| 10 | It must have been Good it must have been some sort of carbonate , and the salt that was formed was from the hydrochloric acid was calcium chloride , so it must have been ? |
| 11 | ‘ It must have been some idea the architect had . |
| 12 | It must have been some force to knock the fences down . ’ |
| 13 | I think it must have been some sort of |
| 14 | Yeah , cos it was you with erm well it must have been some years ago . |
| 15 | It might have been some sort of optician 's test thing , for all I could say , or a kids ’ puzzle . |
| 16 | I was hoping it might have been some tobacco . |
| 17 | I thought it was in support of the IRA but it could have been some other organization , such as the Women 's Liberation people . |
| 18 | Apart from some of its bones showing , it could have been some alien kind of embryo . |
| 19 | If it had n't been Gabriel , it would have been some other angel along the way . |