Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [be] [num] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Falcone had been one of those responsible for bringing to trial 473 members of the Mafia in December 1987 [ see p. 35990 ] . |
| 2 | Frankie had been one of those unfortunates . |
| 3 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 4 | Nordhausen had been one of these places . |
| 5 | At school , however , Coleby had been one of those brainless nonentities who never belong entirely to any one social group , who seem destined for failure . |
| 6 | Bridget had been one of those teenagers who work all through their school holidays in restaurants or in shops or cleaning houses and she always had cash . |