Example sentences of "[verb] one [prep] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Hel lo ! ’ squeaks one of the ladies ' hats suddenly — and there are the Bernsteins . |
2 | ‘ I mean , look at this one , ’ said the interviewer , becoming quite indignant and picking one of the schools ' letters contemptuously from the pile . |
3 | He was reckoned one of the islands ' best fishing guides , a man who could name his own price to the rich northerners who came to the blue waters to kill gamefish , but Bonefish believed that his family might stray from the path of righteousness if he spent too much time away from home so he restricted his guide work to just a few weeks of the year . |
4 | Some pattern of what might be done needed to be worked out , and after a great deal of discussion and searching for funds , we transferred one of the men 's teacher training classes from Kemmendine to a Delta village . |
5 | Some in the polytechnics fear the changes , allowing them to become universities , will amount to a takeover , and in a second dispute , they have accused one of the universities ' ruling bodies of poaching senior staff . |
6 | Ribble Valley achieved brief fame at the 1991 by-election when the Liberal Democrats ' Mike Carr captured one of the Tories ' safest seats . |
7 | Gordon Watson , who scored twice in last week 's Coca Cola Cup seven-goal rout of Leicester and again in the reserves on Thursday , now looks certain to fill one of the strikers ' roles . |
8 | The position could arise whereby the United States attempts to ensure one of the parties ' access through these waterways as against a non-party to the Peace Treaty . |
9 | Government spokesmen had indicated on June 11 a willingness to consider one of the protestors ' later demands , namely the opening up of an independent television station . |
10 | Next day , in her usual riding class , Evelyn was given one of the beginners ' ponies to ride ; not because she had become ‘ big-headed ’ over night , but because her instructor had spotted one weakness in her riding . |
11 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
12 | of a sort of they call one of the women 's essential oils er cos I suppose they think rose was a woman really do n't they . |
13 | It is likely to have a very wide readership — made up not only of the 500 or so Open University students following the course each year , but also the many women embarking one of the women 's studies courses now on offer in Britain and Europe . |
14 | The decision removed one of the rebels ' principal grievances and was expected to strengthen Frelimo 's position at the negotiating table . |
15 | Not only did the occupiers introduce gin to the island , which remains one of the locals ' most popular drinks , but in 1813 cricket was recorded as having been first played in Menorca by the surgeon of HMS Scipo — a match which received the patronage of Admiral Lord St Vincent , the Commander in Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet . |