Example sentences of "[prep] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 2 | Er and he said I 'm after one for my horse . |
| 3 | I ordered Andrew one , Andrew has been after one for a long time . |
| 4 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 5 | The secret we used was to make the correct article immediately follow after one with four legs or corners . |
| 6 | An investigation was launched yesterday after one of the West Country 's best game-fishing rivers was hit by a second major pollution incident in seven weeks . |
| 7 | THE MOST important Khmer and Thai sculptures were withdrawn from Sotheby 's major sale of Asian art yesterday after one of the pieces was found to be a fake . |
| 8 | It was after one of those shows that I introduced Mick Jones to Joe Strummer for the first time . |
| 9 | One Italian who was executed for war crimes — General Bellomo — was the only anti-fascist army officer at a senior level ; he was found guilty after one of his men shot an escaping British prisoner of war at Bari . |
| 10 | Some of the ancient lecture theatres had been well preserved , like the Aula de Fray Luis de Leon , named after one of the many notable scholars who have graced its pulpit-lectern . |
| 11 | Clarissa came off sparkling with pleasure after one of her very successful numbers . |
| 12 | The real story of Koons ' romance with Cicciolina began about three years ago in Milan , when Koons first introduced himself to the Italian porn legend after one of her famed pee-on-the-audience performances . |
| 13 | In come the Estonians , ’ Harold Macmillan is said to have remarked after one of Margaret Thatcher 's early cabinet reshuffles , and the men to whom the Prime Minister turned were certainly outside this small genetic pool . |
| 14 | The end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century saw the publication of Buchanan 's works ( just after one of them , his treatise on Scottish political theory , De Iure Regni apud Scotos , had enjoyed the distinction of being burned , with Hobbes ' Leviathan , by the University of Oxford in 1683 ) ; to begin with , it was works particularly dealing with Mary , the Detectioun and the History of Scotland , which were published , and then in 1715 came Thomas Ruddiman 's Opera Omnia Georgii Buchanani . |
| 15 | Airdrie 0 Hearts 0 AFTER one of the least memorable Scottish Cup semi-finals on record , Airdrie and Hearts played out a soulless , goalless draw and must meet again in 10 days ' time to decide who will challenge Rangers on May 9 . |
| 16 | Cambridge 's inability to shake off Oxford , who poignantly named their boat the John Hebbes after one of their oarsmen who died recently , by the end of the Surrey bend was the crucial factor . |
| 17 | But the ex-President , still affectionately known as ‘ The Gipper ’ after one of his old film roles , proved that he had lost none of his old style and sense of humour . |
| 18 | Bird Alighting ( Peopeo Tholekt ) rode out to parley , but returned in consternation after one of the civilians repeatedly jabbed a rifle into his ribs . |
| 19 | The Square is named after one of the original Bolshevik revolutionaries , Felix Dzerzhinsky , who founded Russia 's first secret police force called the Cheka . |
| 20 | There are a number of different groupings , which may be included under the rubric of social movement : neighbourhood councils , which include the gamut of barrio and community organisations aimed at solving problems of urban facilities and also those that are concerned with living standards , particularly in the form of rising prices of food , transport and other necessities ; women 's movements , which have become particularly prominant in Grenada and Nicaragua , but which also exist in more localised forms in other countries ; human rights groups , which have become so well-known on a national scale in Argentina , but are also active at neighbourhood level as for example in São Paulo , where one was formed in 1978 in the barrio of São Miguel after one of the inhabitants was victimised by police brutality ( Singer 1982 ) ; CEBs , as described in Chapter 4 , are spreading now throughout the continent ; regional movements have emerged in countries where the interests of one region have been subordinated to those of other areas as in Peru ; and political protest groups , which in the extreme become guerrilla groups , such as Sendero Luminoso in Peru . |
| 21 | To the right here is Via Cerva in which stands a restaurant named after one of Milan 's ancient mortal enemies , Barbarossa . |
| 22 | One was very slim and ladylike , written in 1947 and entitled White Linen after one of Christabel 's lyrics . |
| 23 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 24 | He tells of one teacher who was interviewed by police for 12 hours , and then suspended from work for six months after one of his pupils accused him of touching her up . |
| 25 | He was made out to be the bad guy playing against Seve , especially after one of their clashes at Wentworth in the World Matchplay , but I do n't know . |
| 26 | Ira brought them from Victoria after one of his visits with Emily . |
| 27 | I must have been spot on his wavelength for I never left the quiet room after one of his healings without a sense , almost of VROOOOM ! |
| 28 | It somehow excuses my necessary but mild intemperance after one of your punishing walks . |
| 29 | A theatrical gentleman approached me after one of the performances , said he was impressed by my singing , and that he could obtain a part for me with the Schikenader Company in Vienna . |
| 30 | This information helped the police catch the three culprits after one of the biggest manhunts in the history of California . |