Example sentences of "one [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present , there 's no denying that sectional conferences need some guidelines , I mean you only need one experience like last year 's Apex conference to realize that . |
| 2 | ‘ But can one coin prove anything ? ’ she said hesitantly . |
| 3 | They are still more puzzled as I wish them good evening and they recognise my Scots accent , As I quickly follow behind the French Commandos I hear one Canadian say to the other . |
| 4 | Well did one writer say : ‘ The evidence for the resurrection is the existence of the Church in that spiritual vitality which confronts us in the New Testament . ’ |
| 5 | With that thought came relief , and with relief sufficient detachment for him to split his mind , to let one part concentrate on hearing the lines , and the other on performing . |
| 6 | Bob Lee , from the Staffordshire Ambulance service , received the cheque and helped one employee start her own charity effort . |
| 7 | But , did n't one girl look crumpled ? |
| 8 | Arctic sunsets can last many hours ; I once watched one sun take four hours to touch the sea , and then it immediately started into reverse and rose again . |
| 9 | Yeah , I worked with a voluntary group for a while and I remember helping one lady go through , she was raped , and go through the courts , and all her past life was brought up , I mean I was so upset for her and yet the fact that he had actually raped twice before was n't brought up , but her past life was brought up and the man actually got off in the end because she just could not cope with being on the stand and dealing with it all and it was just so terrible that , that , that the , the ina , |
| 10 | He heard one Englishman shout at him , as he was thrown to the ground by another and pierced by the halberd on the end of his musket , like a sunfish in a rockpool . |
| 11 | mind you , not that I 'd lite , the fire , not the glow that 's what you did one night put the |
| 12 | ‘ You 're saying that if , with my mathematical mind , I can say that I have seen five percent of love at Bristol , why could n't one person contain one hundred percent of love . ’ |
| 13 | How often we hear one person tell another to ‘ relax , as if it were the easiest thing in the world to do ? |
| 14 | Could one person overcome two able-bodied people ? ’ |
| 15 | Can one person count and cope with that sort of flow ? |
| 16 | It focused his mind on the future and about the world that his small and fragile son would one day inherit . |
| 17 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 18 | Among the remaining trees , which would one day distinguish themselves in avenues and parks , and over the heads of the labouring workmen rose clouds of parakeets and honey-eaters searching for food . |
| 19 | Teaching her all the domestic arts , Melissa reflected , in the hope that she 'd one day end up a housewife and mother in the true Italian tradition . |
| 20 | JACQUES DELORS , President of the European Commission , told West Germany that its hopes for reunification would best be served by working for a more federal Community , implying that this might one day embrace East Germany . |
| 21 | I made no notes of these visits to Out Patients , for at the time I had no idea that I might one day feel my experience with cancer sufficiently interesting to write about . |
| 22 | I think as early as 1947 you said you must one day make music on film . |
| 23 | Executives told them to " fuck off " and got on with dreaming how DPR might one day set up " Down Under " , where various bucket shops operated . |
| 24 | ‘ He has just told me that if I continue in my present path , remain the fine , upstanding , clean-living boy I so evidently am , I may one day hope — wait for it — to be elected to — Gracious heavens ! — the Cullbridge Athenaeum ! ’ |
| 25 | Here and there a faint pencil line indicated where a line of trees or a valley would one day appear . |
| 26 | Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too . |
| 27 | It 's something a girl dreams she 'll one day do with the man she loves . |
| 28 | She could not stand the thought of having a she-cat which would one day give birth to a large litter in her nice clean home and she did not wait to find out whether or not she-cats could be neutered . |
| 29 | Minton therefore had good reason to worry that the police might one day arrive to search the house , for one of the notorious aspects of the Montagu case was the disclosure that the police had done this without warrants . |
| 30 | She had dreamed , as very young girls did , of a handsome knight who would one day arrive at her father 's castle , fall in love with her , win her heart by some brave deed , and carry her away across his saddle-bow . |