Example sentences of "who [vb past] [pron] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 Cigarettes , so cheap and in such large numbers , were snapped up even by non-smokers , who regarded them as some new kind of currency ; and the little bottles , so exquisitely miniature , ‘ twee ’ , as Sister Dew put it , could have nothing wicked about them even for teetotallers .
2 Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe .
3 I saw an excellent physiotherapist and a chiropractor who subjected me to some tests and found that the ratio between my hamstrings and my quadriceps was n't good enough .
4 The membership of SDS grew rapidly from about 4000 in 1965 to some 100,000 three years later , and throughout this period it had much larger numbers of supporters who identified themselves in some way with ‘ the Movement ’ .
5 Some historians have argued that , once the Indians had become part of the Christian community , their cause was championed by the church who protected them from some of the worst excesses of colonial power ( Poblete 1970 ) .
6 He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God .
7 They met the woman , who took them down some steps leading to the river bank .
8 From a plain wooden table spread with literature she picked up a booklet and offered it to Melissa , who took it with some hesitation .
9 Although Laps has now passed out of the benign hands of David and Lotte Lapidus , who ran it for some 50 years , the tradition lives on as does the style of cuisine , best described by the Yiddish word hamisch .
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