Example sentences of "some of [pron] [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The offences took place between 1977 and 1983 with boys then aged between 11 and 13 , some of whom had been abused by their parents before being taken into care . |
| 2 | In 1920 he revived the Headington Quarry side that he had formed in 1910 , some of whom had been killed or wounded in World War I , including his own son William , whose leg had been shattered . |
| 3 | Kadhafi told a session of the GPC on Oct. 7 that security forces had clashed with what he called " an extremist Islamic group " near the town of Ajdabiya , about 725 km south-east of Tripoli , some of whom had been killed and others captured . |
| 4 | As a sergeant with A company , the 2nd Battalion , The Durham Light Infantry , his task was to help guard Japanese prisoners , some of whom had been accused of war crimes . |
| 5 | The boys all liked him , too — and some of them resented being placed under my care because of the fun they knew they could be having next door . |
| 6 | By 1640 all the British colonies in the New World had assemblies of elected representatives to look after local problems of legislation and taxation and , while some of them had been created with royal authorization , some had plainly been set up in order to make independence possible . |
| 7 | Some of them had been used in the catechesis . |
| 8 | The door was secured by eight clamps , some of which had been jammed into position by the impact of the blast . |
| 9 | In another case , the National Union of Mineworkers was fined £200,000 for refusal to obey an interim injunction and the judge ordered sequestration of its assets , some of which had been transferred abroad . |
| 10 | Wearing his other hat of H Buckley and Sons , he was responsible for the 3,000 kilos of potatoes and 700 kilos of onions , some of which had been grown by the pupils of Scissett Middle School as part of their rural studies . |
| 11 | And this was just one of a number of sites , known only to Halim and his team , where the early Chinese mariners had buried their dead together , as was their custom , with porcelain some of which had been fired in the imperial kilns of the Sung and Ming dynasties and dated back as far as the eleventh century . |
| 12 | Lower down the hierarchy and , apparently , quite independently of his seniors , the young William Armstrong ( who was to head the Treasury in the 1960s and the Civil Service in the 1970s ) was , as Brook 's private secretary , trying to make sense of the proliferation of committees , some of which had been inherited from the Coalition while others had been created at a considerable rate by the new government . |
| 13 | There were supposed irregularities in the cheques , some of which had been endorsed over to third parties allegedly in breach of authority , so the administrators issued but did not serve a protective writ . |
| 14 | In one case five fire extinguishers in the same room were found to be empty — some of which had been used by workmen to get rid of dust . |
| 15 | no more than the embodiment of administrative arrangements which would give order to a confused system and some of which had been recommended and accepted as desirable during the previous two decades . |
| 16 | Following the dinner , a slide presentation of some of the matches held at Auchterader were shown by Pat McGrath who had captured the day on film — some of which had been published in the previous issue of the Glenpatrick News . |
| 17 | In the pre-unified past , Sotheby 's sold , without a peep of protest , a Pater and Lancret that had been looted from Potsdam ( The Art Newspaper , No. 1 , October 1990 , p. 1 ) ( subsequently reacquired ) , and negotiated with the Kupferstichkabinett , Berlin-Dahlem , in the sale of drawings from the Theodor Allan Heinrich estate , some of which had been looted . |
| 18 | Nearly all our crew were to tell us harrowing anecdotes of personal encounters with hungry pythons — some of which had been measured at over twenty-eight feet long . |
| 19 | Under Dušan the Serbs had encouraged German miners ( known as Saxons ) from Transylvania to develop the mines of Kosovo , some of which had been worked in Roman times . |
| 20 | Most of the building was old and was covered in dark green ivy , but some of it had been built more recently and was of grim , black stone . |
| 21 | Remnants were found in the throat and gullet , as some of it had been swallowed . |
| 22 | ‘ My father discovered some of it had been stolen , even though he was still being sent a bill each month to cover storage , ’ said Cooper . |