Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 2 | He flew into Morag 's arms and the pair of them hugged one another . |
| 3 | I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally . |
| 4 | I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) . |
| 5 | In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community . |
| 6 | And then of course as soon as I started the chemotherapy I became one of them and I started not to notice . |
| 7 | I asked one of the Commandos lifting the dead Germans . |
| 8 | I asked one of the medics who was unloading the wounded . |
| 9 | I asked one evening . |
| 10 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 11 | When , a few days later , I asked one morning , " When a hen lays an egg , does it come out of hen 's beak ? " a deathly hush fell over the breakfast table . |
| 12 | By now we were amongst a group of riotous children , and I asked one of them if the festival were now over . |
| 13 | I asked one lecturer " What do you wish me to do now ? " and his answer was " That 's for you to decide . |
| 14 | I asked one of them . |
| 15 | And at night I asked one of the young men who was helping us , one who had come with the carters , to help me load the saint on to the wagon , to go to Ramsey to the aid and succour of our misused house . |
| 16 | Because I know I asked one of my friends |
| 17 | I asked one pupil if he ever said Grace . |
| 18 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |
| 19 | Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died . |
| 20 | And the corridor down and kitch two or three kitchens that were we we went er I asked one of th the attendants I got a I grabbed the another chap with me we we 'd come across together . |
| 21 | ‘ Would you like to pick your own nose , Sir , ’ I asked one serious looking shopper . |
| 22 | I asked one of they did n't I ? |
| 23 | Later , I applied one of my favourite PD utilities called Hdtest to mark all bad sectors , but most of the disk space used by that directory was recovered . |
| 24 | They had that air of sadness that comes over one when a funeral passes by , and I overheard one say : ‘ It 's no longer an army ! |
| 25 | For one thing , I doubled one of the songs using a Gibson Chet Atkins model . |
| 26 | Depressed people can of course make hasty and unwise decisions , and I made one such decision when , during my second term at Berkeley , I decided to give up my London flat . |
| 27 | ‘ I made one speech on the subject and I 've not referred to it since , and there seems no purpose in doing so . ’ |
| 28 | Again we had a double bed , and I made one or two tentative sexual advances , to no effect . |
| 29 | At tea I made one of the mistakes of my life . |
| 30 | I made one good decision : to wear the trainers on the plane , and carry the paperwork in my hand luggage . |