Example sentences of "there [vb past] [been] some " in BNC.

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1 There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons .
2 There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ?
3 ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm —
4 Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about .
5 There 'd been some trouble at The Randolph .
6 The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner .
7 The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement .
8 There had been some redistribution of income .
9 But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school .
10 There had been some hope that the law would distinguish between such deals , part of normal prudent treasury management , and others , essentially speculative , as if the council were in the finance business itself .
11 He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences .
12 He led the way down the gangplank complaining vaguely to his friends that there had been some disgusting favouritism somewhere .
13 There had been some appalling bad luck at a place not far from Dunkerque called Furnes .
14 Same-Lamborghini 's UK importer agreed that there had been some problems with the quality of cab fittings on some early models .
15 Alida went out and stared at the empty letter cage in the hall , called sharply after the man , that there had been some mistake .
16 At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) .
17 Tutorial Classes continued to be seen as the most important element in the WEA 's programme and there had been some increase in their provision in recent years .
18 If only there had been some worked examples , we may have been able to follow the article .
19 Although there had been some dissenters , international approval was given through the London Dumping Convention , an annually reviewed agreement signed by forty-six countries .
20 There had been some sort of clandestine liaison between the lady and Darrel for some time .
21 There had been some notable public defections from the Thatcher camp by some of her erstwhile ardent supporters — including Edwina Currie and Emma Nicholson — but many MPs clearly feared possible retribution from their constituency parties , most of which were strongly supportive of Mrs Thatcher .
22 His new girl-friend was also examined and nothing abnormal was found , although she did say that there had been some increase in her vaginal discharge for some months .
23 This is exactly the way the band saw it and , when pushed , certain employees of Rough Trade agreed that there had been some kind of promotional foul-up .
24 And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about .
25 The last faint hope that there had been some mistake died .
26 One set of 10 pellets was left on a dry ledge against a south facing wall , and after two years there had been some erosion of the surfaces of the pellets but the pellets were still largely intact .
27 However , there had been some deterioration in her mood over the previous 2 days .
28 Apparently there must have been very heavy rain higher up the dale because there had been some flooding and the river was running very fast .
29 There had been some acid , some purple haze , going round the school recently , and a couple of boys were tripping .
30 Then , just when I was wondering if there had been some mistake , a man came up full of apologies , ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ he said .
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