Example sentences of "some had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many sales had been left with high unsold percentages over the previous two weeks , though some had been successful . |
| 2 | Some had been killed outright by flying shrapnel , others had been badly wounded and had died slowly . |
| 3 | The problems mostly arose from lack of capital and only in a few cases had any action been taken — two had recently purchased houses in nearby villages for their sons and some had been able to purchase or rent some more land . |
| 4 | Some had been hostile but others were quite friendly . |
| 5 | Then came news of more freebies , rumours of worse stories to come , and Tory ministers and MPs realised what some had been telling them for weeks . |
| 6 | Some had been finding work a strain and early retirement came as a relief . |
| 7 | However , the chairman , JC Warburg , begged the audience not to judge the quality of the autochromes too harshly , as some had been developed on location with solutions made from water gleaned from melted snow . |
| 8 | Most of the young people had suffered several foster placement breakdowns , and some had been in trouble with the law . |
| 9 | Certainly by the end of the sixteenth century some had been broken up ; in wooded districts they might not only be small , but also bear scant resemblance to the ‘ classic ’ manor of arable farming areas . |
| 10 | A police spokesman said all four people held had now been released without charge , although some had been bailed to report back to the police at a later date . |
| 11 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 12 | Some had been shot down singly , quite near the edge of the plateau , presumably while advancing . |
| 13 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 14 | Some had been referred by their general practitioners because of a report of cervical cytological abnormality , and in others a cytological abnormality had been discovered during gynaecological examination . |
| 15 | However , the chairman , JC Warburg , begged the audience not to judge the quality of the autochromes too harshly , as some had been developed on location with solutions made from water gleaned from melted snow . |
| 16 | And one study looking at the experiences of black teenage mothers found that although they had begun using contraceptives as much as white girls , some had been persuaded by their boyfriends to stop using them . |
| 17 | Some had been signed as much as three days later . |
| 18 | Some had been sawn laterally , some vertically , to reveal the complex chambers inside . |
| 19 | Some had been part-filled with coloured wax . |
| 20 | In some cases it was reported that Albanian frontier guards had opened fire on the refugees and that some had been killed . |
| 21 | A government official told the Libyan news agency that large numbers of illegal immigrants had found their way into Libya by desert routes without passports and some had been found to be suffering from serious diseases . |
| 22 | Some had been with him on that night . |
| 23 | Most necklaces were still unsold when the beads were identified and withdrawn , but some had been bought by a craft worker in Gloucestershire . |