Example sentences of "one [prep] [Wh pn] [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had two sons ( one of whom was killed in action near Armentières in 1915 ) and two daughters ( one of whom died in infancy ) . |
| 2 | They had three sons , one of whom was killed in World War I , and three daughters . |
| 3 | The men , one of whom was named as Ernest Joma , were quickly arrested , however , and two hours later the then Information , Ideological Guidance and Co-operative Development Minister , Simon Pierre , broadcast a message denying that any coup had taken place and calling for calm . |
| 4 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |
| 5 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 6 | It was clear from the sentences imposed on the other defendants , one of whom was sentenced to three years ' imprisonment , that the sentencer considered that a longer sentence would have been appropriate if the appellant had been over 21 . |
| 7 | As £20 in goods was the most any of them owned , the business of the Gobles of Petworth , one of whom was fined in 1562 , must have been quite modest ; a namesake of Thomas Page , the Alfriston defaulter , had 20 marks , and a possible forebear of George Partrych of East Grinstead was a small landowner with £5 a year . |
| 8 | Of the three carriers of hepatitis B surface antigen ( all positive for antibodies to hepatitis B e antigen ) one was a general practitioner 's receptionist and two were nurses , one of whom was known through antenatal screening to be a hepatitis B carrier . |
| 9 | Among the local families who had dealings with the duke were the Ratcliffes of Bradley near Skipton , one of whom was retained by Gloucester for service in the Scottish campaign of 1480 . |
| 10 | Among the local families who had dealings with the duke were the Ratcliffes of Bradley near Skipton , one of whom was retained by Gloucester for service in the Scottish campaign of 1480 . |
| 11 | It was full of knights , one of whom was dying in the arms of a fair maiden . |
| 12 | Although that lifeboat station was not operating during the war the crew were from a lifeboat family , one of whom was awarded a Bronze medal for Gallantry some 30 years later . |
| 13 | I overheard a conversation between two women , one of whom was talking about her new grandchild . |
| 14 | This , together with the replacement of three jurors during the course of the trial — one of whom was removed only a day before the jury 's deliberations began — was thought likely to form the basis of an appeal against the convictions . |
| 15 | The smugglers have gone , the last major encounter being in 1831 , when six coastguards armed with muskets surprised about forty smugglers at Whitsands , only one of whom was caught while heading for Sheviock . |