Example sentences of "some [prep] [pron] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the guests were thousands of plain-clothes police and out-of-uniform soldiers , some of whom arrived in military trucks , dressed as clowns . |
| 2 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 3 | After some years the designs from the Empire influenced fashionable people in their taste , and Roman style bronze brooches and bangles , some of them made in Britain , were worn by the men and women of prosperous families . |
| 4 | Between shows the girls dressed in sweatshirts and jogging shorts ; some of them stayed in the dressing rooms and stretched out to sleep or read , others went to another room in the basement complex where they could watch TV . |
| 5 | Some of them worked in the field , he understood , but these were the younger , smarter ones who had been trained as cipher clerks and radio operators , usually to serve a male agent . |
| 6 | Some of them travelled in fifth class , which consisted of boxcars totally bereft of comfort . |
| 7 | Martha thought it was a beautiful school ; all the pupils were girls , most of them were white , and some of them arrived in cars even larger than her own . |
| 8 | Mr MacKinlay said he had heard of the existence of a list of services , some of which appeared in The Observer newspaper yesterday . |
| 9 | Naturally the more challenging the holiday the higher the price , especially if the reward for six hours in the saddle — with perhaps some of it spent in the rain — is a hot bath and the creature comforts of at least a hotel . |
| 10 | But it was countered by the somewhat cooler attitude towards the royal family that had emerged in recent years , some of it captured in an ‘ anti-jubilee ’ number of the New Statesman edited by Anthony Howard . |