Example sentences of "three of [pron] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pain in his ribs , three of which had been crushed in a recent collision , was almost unbearable . |
| 2 | Thus the Hellenistic age saw an intellectual event of the first order : the confrontation of the Greeks with four other civilizations , three of which had been practically unknown to them before , and one of which had been known under very different conditions . |
| 3 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 4 | Three of them had been detained by UNIFIL , but the other three had seized the 14 hostages . |
| 5 | The three of us had been going to spend the evening together but Buffy had slipped off . |