Example sentences of "[verb] the [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , two things , I can assure you that married women will remain the one of the most issue on selection . |
| 2 | HAVE you heard the one about the Irish band who were the talk of New York BEFORE they were even formed ? |
| 3 | Have you heard the one about the two Scottish footballers who were condemned to death in Panama ? |
| 4 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you heard the one about the three-legged sailor ? ’ piped Bunty Abercrombie . |
| 6 | I do n't want the one on the top shelf . |
| 7 | I mean the one with the long nose . ’ |
| 8 | Lesk 's technique has been adapted to meet these requirements : the definitions of these three candidates are compared with those of the rest of the sentence to find the one with the highest overlap . |
| 9 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |
| 10 | I want the one on the top shelf please . |
| 11 | I want the one on the top shelf . |
| 12 | I want the one on the top shelf . |
| 13 | In particular , if all assets were equally risky , then everyone would choose the one with the greatest expected payoff to holding it . |
| 14 | Equally , we expect that if all assets have the same expected ( average ) payoff , then most people would choose the one with the lowest variability , that is , the smallest risk . |
| 15 | I would like the one on the top shelf please . |
| 16 | I would like the one on the top shelf please . |
| 17 | I would like the one on the top shelf please . |
| 18 | He 'd got the one of the quickest er turns of er of brain you know , he could switch from one thing to another , and he was most remarkable . |
| 19 | He 's got the one with the teeny weeny arms . |
| 20 | You know the one with the ginger hair ? |
| 21 | You know the one with the broken leg ? ’ |
| 22 | Erm you know the one in the second year ? |
| 23 | The man indicated the one in the far corner with a jerk of his head . |
| 24 | I like the one with the lockable cupboard door , but I like that one as well . |
| 25 | Are you going to do the one on the left hand side . |
| 26 | If he ca n't get in there , he 'll try the one on the left , and if that 's full , he 'll try the next one , and so on . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't judge the one by the many , Ellie , ’ he warned softly , ‘ because you 're likely to come seriously unstuck . ’ |
| 28 | Did you hear the one about the Russian soldiers on parade ? |
| 29 | er the other one of us will erm take the one of the other cars and put Philip in that and drive him there . |
| 30 | Last year saw the one of the biggest international fields ever at the Bramham Three Day Event with the overseas challenge being repelled by Virginia Leng on Welton Chit Chat . |