Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh pn] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | When I told my friends Bill Page and Bill Adams , both of whom were bus inspectors and the first of whom had been at Whitgift with me , they were astounded . |
2 | None of the attackers , all of whom had been of subject races , had survived to be questioned . |
3 | Comfortably and expensively furnished , the apartments were staffed by servants many of whom had been with the lady Alianor from the time of her marriage . |
4 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
5 | L Detachment at the time consisted of around one hundred men , most of whom had been through the basic training course . |
6 | An analysis by marital status and number of children showed that for the married the main difference was between those with no children , 17 per cent of whom had been in a residential home , and those with one or more , for whom the proportion was 5 per cent . |
7 | On 10 May , Mrs W , the mother of fifteen children , eight of whom had been in care since the previous November , began an appeal against the care orders holding them . |
8 | She was also handling an interesting portfolio including two public companies , one of which was a small USM quoted property investment company , Capital and Regional Properties , run by Martin Barber , Xavier Pullen and Roger Boy-land , all of whom had been in the property business together for 20 years . |
9 | Retiring members included the Chairman , of who had been in post since 1984 , seeing the Council successfully through a record number of reviews of its work , ways of working and reconstitutions . |
10 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |