Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] one " in BNC.

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1 The first surveyed 2,500 individuals of whom about one third had received training in the last 3 years .
2 The count led them through one of the doors into what was a very beautiful drawing-room and almost immediately a servant came in with refreshments .
3 The problem arose if our visitors had changed them between one trip and the next , when he would be completely foxed .
4 Why not list your own holiday requirements and then tick them off one by one as you discover for yourself what Ten Bel has to offer .
5 He had crossed them off one by one until there was no one left but Una O'Malley .
6 Instead he waited until stragglers ventured outside the walls and then picked them off one by one , capturing the Dwarfs alive if possible and tormenting them for days within earshot of the citadel walls .
7 It 's a bit like Alien ex and it kills them off one by one .
8 And I was not averse to fighting with any boy who challenged me for one reason or another .
9 So tomorrow at two o'clock Miss Trunchbull will be taking over from me for one lesson .
10 She wore a stiff black silk dress , a lace cap and an expression of disapproval — " I hope they wo n't take me for one of your actress friends , " she boomed .
11 ‘ Excuse me for one minute . ’
12 I am sure that the House will bear with me for one or two minutes while I explain what has happened on this occasion .
13 I 'd had enough middle-aged men slobbering all over me for one day .
14 Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another .
15 ‘ When she left me for one of the other guys in the team , somebody I 'd kind of thought of as a friend … well , ’ he went on hurriedly , ‘ I was n't surprised she 'd gone .
16 to last me for one month , because we 've got to put it on .
17 Amazingly , Gazza can remember nothing about one of the great goals of his career because he was still suffering the debilitating effects of flu .
18 These cheeses have their own identity , and nothing about one cheese changes the nature of the other cheeses .
19 How ironic , Antonietta 's mother remarked , that it took a young lady from a foreign country to educate them about one of their own artists !
20 The aim of the project in relation to schools is to regard them as one kind of community group among others .
21 There are such men in this city , and even to see them , never mind to touch them or have them kiss you , or see them just before dawn , or to have them as one of your dear friends , is one of the great pleasures of our life , and it is commoner than most people think .
22 This abberation apart , Chuff Chuff offered one of the best days out of the summer — little surprise to those who already know them as one of the Midlands ' most reliable and imaginative club promoters .
23 The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass .
24 As well as being one of the rarest breeds in the world , there are those who 've labelled them as one of the ugliest .
25 She says you get new ten pound notes , they stick together and you count them as one .
26 and if he wants to send them as one consignment , but now the value is twenty five thousand pounds collectively you can ring up Stubbings and as , or get your F and A to do this for you , Finance and Admin , ring up Stubbings and can you give me a special rate for these goods and ar , can you give me what I can charge them for special coverage to take it higher than our normal coverage of fifteen thousand pound ?
27 We used to get them for one penny the pack in the navy .
28 And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next .
29 That gives us the potential of raising two thousand pounds , because we intend to sell them for one ninety nine .
30 Yeah , buy them for one ninety nine there .
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