Example sentences of "one [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no one wasted much attention on that . |
| 2 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 3 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in t any more questions ladies and gentlemen ? |
| 4 | ‘ I remember — and it 's lucky for you no one asked any awkward questions about what happened along the way when you and Anna spent a night together . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When does it start ? ’ one asked another . |
| 6 | No one realised more than the Queen that her children were deeply flawed and that the monarchy might be better served if that generation was skipped altogether . |
| 7 | Any one got any Harry |
| 8 | There were until about 20 years ago , mosaic pavements from Roman times displayed in their original positions where they had been discovered during field work , together with one unearthed some little distance away at a later excavation . |
| 9 | 6 survived the crash but no one lived more than a few days . |
| 10 | Depending on slide size , up to about 24 slices can be flattened in one timed half hour run . |
| 11 | Angel One applied this precept now . |
| 12 | Of those who shared , all except one made some attempt to clean the syringe and 83% always cleaned shared equipment . |
| 13 | ‘ No one made any attempt at all to see any of the good things about it . |
| 14 | Colleagues of Nigel 's helped with the waterworkings , and my friends got dug into the soil and helped whitewash , and one made most of our curtains , and they really seemed to enjoy it . |
| 15 | Only one found any significant difference between heparin and no-heparin groups in coronary patency , and even that small increase was not associated with any significant improvement in enzymatic infarct size or recurrent ischaemic episodes . |
| 16 | Charles recognised that there would come a point when one found this relentless sexual innuendo irritating . |
| 17 | I was quite effeminate in my youth , but no one mentioned this fact to me . |
| 18 | No one pretended any such thing . |
| 19 | One reported that safety inspectors had been told " not to find too many faults " . |
| 20 | No one believed this explanation . |
| 21 | No one imagined many customers would actually copy this precisely , but it was an inspiration , or guide , to show what could be done . |
| 22 | The difficulty came when one imagined these numbers written on the spine of a book , or on the can of a filmstrip or an audio-cassette , and given to an untrained person to shelve or file in a sequence . |
| 23 | Well perhaps that one played that way then . |
| 24 | She argued that Marx 's schema of reproduction became unbalanced if one assumed such an increase in the organic composition of capital . |
| 25 | The ‘ Do You Know ? ’ set issued by Wills was very instructive and I for one learnt many little known facts from them , including the origin of the Sargasso Sea . |
| 26 | No one noticed that , either . |
| 27 | It was a sign of their anxiety that no one noticed this strong language despite the presence of ladies . |
| 28 | One came many hours later after news of the atrocity had been spread by Claverhouse as a warning to the district . |
| 29 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 30 | He would ring her up every couple of months or so and invite her to the opera , or to dinner and no one paid any attention to this . |