Example sentences of "some [prep] they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1640 all the British colonies in the New World had assemblies of elected representatives to look after local problems of legislation and taxation and , while some of them had been created with royal authorization , some had plainly been set up in order to make independence possible . |
| 2 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 3 | Some of them had been used in the catechesis . |
| 4 | Some of them had been mopping the floor ; some washing plates and cups ; some just running , not carrying anything , but speedy and purposeful all the same . |
| 5 | — their terror of having a foot chopped off for stealing ( some of them have been stealing ) |
| 6 | No , we wo , we were just saying like that it 's a shame because like maybe some of them have been made redundant or |
| 7 | Some of them have been invited again and again to meet the London ambulance service for a briefing other than that which they get from the trade union . |
| 8 | Some of them have been getting strong criticism lately . |
| 9 | Although some of them have been drafted in an " institutional " style , others have been deliberately kept simple . |
| 10 | Nobody 's job is secure , but some jobs are more secure , have always been more secure than others and if you 've been , as some of them have been relying on overtime |
| 11 | Unfortunately , I could not find either a clear description of what these psychotherapies amount to nor a critical account of the scientific trials to which some of them have been subjected . |
| 12 | Some of them have been used as an indirect way of seeing the file by parents denied access for themselves . |
| 13 | Some of them have been got at by the plant-breeders and bear no resemblance to the species or variety originally discovered ; some remain the same , being already sufficiently beautiful or useful . |
| 14 | Nor , for that matter , are they all able to make first-hand experiments with teaching style , some of them having been promoted out of contact with the pupils . |