Example sentences of "some had [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Some had gone back to their villages ; some to the pottery ; some to begin the maintenance tasks that would take place , at the yard or by the hearth , all through the winter .
2 Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives .
3 Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives .
4 Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives .
5 Although most residents were being relocated in any of the 34 remaining council homes for the elderly , some had gone to private homes and some had gone to other counties to be closer to relatives .
6 we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out .
7 Some had existed from the fourth and fifth centuries on — especially the great pilgrim basilicas of Rome , with St Peter and St Paul fuori le mura in the lead .
8 But , some had become sociable and talkative , probably because their parents had helped them .
9 In one day 's march thirty-eight mills had had their plugs drawn in Dewsbury , the masters standing amazed in their empty sheds while the workers streamed out to join what to some had become a Crusade , to others a Pilgrimage ; an opportunity for revenge ; an exciting chance for a holiday .
10 I 'd get wild orchids for the garden , I told Mrs Goreng , knowing some had grown near Rosa 's .
11 There were also reports that some had jumped on the trains as they passed through East Germany , or that the numbers could have included previously uncounted children .
12 Some had written letters to pop stars or relatives , others had written stories and all were doing elementary arithmetic .
13 Things were n't going well for the American studios , either at home or in the UK , and they became increasingly desperate , hunting around for the winning formula some had lost and others never found .
14 ‘ Almost everyone I met had lost at least one relative , some had lost several , and families had been scattered hundreds of miles apart , ’ said Mr Thomas .
15 They had had little time to socialise and some had lost contacts with friends and neighbours as a direct result of being in full-time employment .
16 Some had lost faith in their marriage , some in hope for promotion , some on discovering that they would never have a child .
17 This did not mean , as some had assumed , that Man might recklessly pillage Nature for what he sought ; indeed , Nature was deserving of the more respect because it was a divine creation .
18 That was the time I started to get used to the place , to the screws and things like that , because some had seen me before .
19 Some had given radio talks and one had founded a society for people with his own impairment .
20 The pressure of higher salaries , labour shortages and office rents was by 1989 causing more government departments to think of moving sections of work to the North , as some had done in the 1960s and 1970s .
21 Some had adopted the jusei , the ‘ great sword ’ of the Manchu , which had been introduced by Yuan , an officer on the navy staff of Alexei 's father , likewise a castaway .
22 Some had served the parish in the past , others were from the local Deanery .
23 These had been regular church-goers in the Caribbean but had not felt at home in the more restrained worship of the British churches , and some had felt cold-shouldered by the white members .
24 At best , it could be agreed that some people defined the national interest one way and some defined it another way , and each side was equally well-meaning ; only some had pushed their patriotism beyond the law , so keen were they , while others had stopped and thought .
25 Whilst the smallest kind of town can only have served as a market point , those with populations exceeding 500 usually provided more extensive services to their localities , and some had developed specialised manufactures even if on a modest scale .
26 Of the 14 surviving patients in this report , all had required support with intravenous infusions of cardiac drugs before transplantation , and , in addition , some had developed secondary renal and hepatic dysfunction ; clearly this does not seem to mitigate against a successful outcome to transplantation .
27 Some had made the original policy an enthusiastic part of their provision .
28 And then the next thing you heard er away in the distance some had landed about Croydon or Streatham or something and , and some landed in the hills rounds about us .
29 Some had called for public acceptance that homosexuals and drug users were the only people facing a real risk of getting AIDS .
30 Some had cut their hair and nails as mementos to return to their families .
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