Example sentences of "one [noun] i " in BNC.
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1 | For one instant I saw you , erect on tiptoe , ruling your orchestra and transfigured by the expression of a conqueror . |
2 | At any one instant I can call the electron there A and the electron here B if I want to . |
3 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
4 | When I went to Drake Hall on one sentence I was waiting for another court case as well , a conspiracy case , a big one . |
5 | One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost . |
6 | One afternoon I had seen him painfully sewing on a shirt-button . |
7 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
8 | One afternoon I went out with another girl for a walk , with the idea of finding a quiet spot in the meadow we called the Big Field , to read and write letters . |
9 | One afternoon I went to the Chelsea Hotel , to see the 1990 Tarum , shown with hats designed by Philip Somerville . |
10 | After hours , we went to a bar in Knightsbridge , where one afternoon I met a fifty-five-year-old Italian woman who was wearing white leather flared trousers . |
11 | One afternoon I went out riding . |
12 | One afternoon I was going back into my hotel when a fat man came and stood in front of me . |
13 | ‘ It was about a month ago ; one afternoon I sort of burst into father 's office to ask him something . |
14 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
15 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
16 | we , we , we , we , we 've , we 've , we 've got one decision I think which we are making , which is that we should n't at the moment , make any recruitment until we 've got confirmation that we can guarantee employment next year , se , secondly I think we 're saying that the first appointment that we do want to make is of a complaint examiner , and that if further investigators leave us , then we would n't be seeking to replace them as investigators , we 'd be seeking to replace with the complaint examiner , that , that , that , |
17 | ‘ Better than one story I know , about a baby who cried at every meal . |
18 | One cottage I stayed in without electricity or water saw 11 of us standing eagerly over a one-ring Calor gas burner in the morning waiting for a kettle to boil for coffee , when one of our party came into the kitchen , picked up the kettle and took it into the bathroom to wash his face . |
19 | On one level I suppose climbing the south-west face of Everest was the biggest and most complete expedition , but in spite of our being successful , one member of the team died on the second summit attempt . |
20 | On one level I knew that Robert had been unfaithful to Lili and on another I knew that he could n't possibly have been . |
21 | With one blow I could wipe that expression and the flesh that paints it right from their skulls . |
22 | One mistress I could ignore — but he 's now on his sixth . |
23 | On Sunday mornings Auntie would bring it back clean , cook lunch — which always included the one vegetable I can stomach , ie beans-in-a-tin because they 're not disgusting green — and afterwards she and I would play the test match while Pa worked on his sermon . |
24 | have I do , one part I th I , I think we should spiff up on , I 've said that erm that er London er L B A were er did say that employees would be relocated in British Aerospace . |
25 | In one case I know of , two friends resolved to escape because they had heard their parents ‘ scheming ’ of such marriages in the near future . |
26 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
27 | They may want security , er one case I 've been del dealing with they wanted the share certificates depositing by way of some security for instance . |
28 | Er one case I know he , he 's so well known amongst the old lads er he used to give you so many sums to do each day and I think it was four or five long division . |
29 | I could remember one case I had , er he 'd be about eight . |
30 | ‘ One Sierra I looked at had done 112,000 miles but the dealer could n't tell me whether it had been once or twice around the clock . ’ |