Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 2 | ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner . |
| 3 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 4 | She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one . |
| 5 | With one doctor , one nurse made me one of the doctors told me to get up . |
| 6 | Then Isabel read them one by one . |
| 7 | ‘ If I sold them one or two at a time I 'd be here for twenty years . ’ |
| 8 | Marie read me one of her poems the other day . |
| 9 | Dadda , voyaging day by day farther out on his black sea of depression , made his one contribution to the talk . |
| 10 | You may not think of Prestwick Airport as a great landmark in rock n roll history but it was where Elvis Presley made his one and only visit to Britain . |
| 11 | Damien Cronin made his one telling burst of the match … and that was enough to open the way for Ronnie Eriksson to score … |
| 12 | Before the break , record signing Lenny Johnrose got his one and only chance but Roger Freestone pulled off a good save . |
| 13 | It was there that I made my one and only good find , not of course taking into account the brass washout pipe plate . |
| 14 | It made my one minute I thought help ! |
| 15 | It was at TMcL that he first met his one and only ‘ accountancy ’ hero , James Dowling , the then senior partner — ‘ one of the finest men I have ever met and arguably the best accountant Scotland has ever seen ’ . |
| 16 | My chance came some weeks later , when he visited me one November evening in my little cottage . |
| 17 | Nellie promised me one of her old dresses when she had a new one . |
| 18 | So I drew them one by one — — Skippetty Rabbit , his wife Gillian , Brownie the Bear , Prowler the Wolf , Fido the Pup , Sly Fox , Piney Cone the Pine Marten , Longtail and Short Tail the Mice , and Bill Mouse with his wife Sue . |
| 19 | He found me one day , crying my heart out , and because he was the sort of man he was — kind , sympathetic — I told him . |
| 20 | They approached me one by one with invitations : some drinks over a game of cards ; a night out at the theatre … |
| 21 | On my last day there I was literally pushed out of a small news agent 's shop by a pair of youths for requesting a box of matches in English rather than in French ; I even tried my one and only French joke on them and said ‘ Quel fromage ! ’ but it got me nowhere — but out ! |
| 22 | The Polar Party ( Issittrup-partii ) retained its one seat . |
| 23 | The PCP fell from 34 at dissolution ( 38 in the 1986 elections ) to 10 seats , and the Liberals retained their one seat . |
| 24 | He was , however , arrested on one occasion and , on another , found himself one of a group of men being attacked in a lavatory by a crowd of youths ( Humphreys 1970 ) . |
| 25 | The newcomer , moreover , does not enter the village as a lone individual who has to win social recognition among the locals in order to make life tolerable-Instead , particularly during the 1950s and 1960s , the newcomers arrived in such large numbers — perhaps due to the building of a new housing estate by a local speculative builder — that the individual ‘ immigrant ’ found himself one of many others whose values , behaviour and life-styles were similarly based upon urban , middle-class patterns of sociability . |
| 26 | As soon as I disappeared up the path , Poosie Nansie-wards , he promised himself one more cast followed by a quick canter to the bar . |
| 27 | Well I helped you one year |
| 28 | And so , about a week after their last direct encounter , she found herself one evening waiting up for him , sitting with a glass of vodka and tonic in the drawing-room , long after Silvia had gone to bed . |
| 29 | She bore him one posthumous son . |
| 30 | Her husband found her one day wearing a rose pinned to her gown that was not from his garden , and guessed it was a gift from her lover . |