Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] in some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 2 | Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools . |
| 3 | It also transpired that parts of England ( east and south-east ) were put on full invasion alert at the time , but it seems that ‘ Cromwell ’ had been ignored in some places where the junior officers who happened to be on duty had not been let into the secret of what it meant . |
| 4 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 5 | The other features , the mouth , the ears , and especially the nose , had been blurred in some fashion by the surgeon 's knife . |
| 6 | The refugees also claimed that water and electricity supplies had been cut in some parts of Kuwait City but not in others . |
| 7 | He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned . |
| 8 | The thought that it had been inside his mouth , touching his tongue and gums and those rather small but perfect teeth , that it had been drenched in some of his most intimate fluids gave me an erotic thrill . |
| 9 | Premium rises had been achieved in some areas , but other sectors had been very competitive . |
| 10 | In the year since the Webster ruling invited states to pass new restricts against abortion , more than 300 bills had been formulated in some 40 states . |
| 11 | All of his staff had been damaged in some way , but for those who were shy , or clever enough to hide themselves from Lennon 's advance . |
| 12 | ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? ) |
| 13 | After a while he simply lay there , numb , half conscious , his hands making hopeless little passes in the air , until Ellwood stopped , suddenly , his arms raised , as if a connection had been broken in some terrible machine . |
| 14 | Coloni received a message to say his mother had been injured in some sort of political disturbance in Valparaíso , so instead of cooking for us , he decided to go home . |
| 15 | It came from Tony Morrell , the Hartlepool-based athlete who has been preferred to Cram in the 1500 metres and whose fitness had been queried in some quarters . |
| 16 | Information Centres had been established in some twenty places . |
| 17 | He sounded embarrassed , as though he had been caught in some misdemeanour . |
| 18 | The opening of shops , for example , had been restricted in some municipal undertakings by pressure from Conservative town councils dominated by local shopkeepers who feared the competition . |