Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First one , then the other gingerly descended and as the one with the keys circled the car , checking each orifice and lock , the other brazenly mounted the bonnet and cast his arms and gaze further , far across to the disappearing outline of the receding crag of hill . |
| 2 | In his presentation Vic covered a good proportion of the East Anglian network , lines such as King 's Lynn — Liverpool Street , Norwich — Liverpool Street , going through Thetford and Ely with its cathedral ( known as ‘ The Ship of the Fens ’ ) , King 's Cross — Cambridge via Royston , Norwich — Ipswich , and one or two freight branches such as the one to the cement works at Barrington , with its Rolls-Royce diesel shunters , and a line to a sugarbeet factory , now closed . |
| 3 | I felt a stabbing pain in my caught wing as the one on the top of the pole lunged with his beak at where he saw blood . |
| 4 | When this happened they were given their own temple and , of course , in the temples were altars such as the one on the reverse of the coin . |
| 5 | That is true of some uncontroversial matters , but recently there have been several Bills of this kind , such as the one after the Hungerford massacre — that was rushed through the House and not dealt with properly — the council tax Bill — that was rushed through the House and is a mess — and the Dangerous Dogs Bill that was also rushed through all its stages . |
| 6 | In the light of this we should monitor news reports of lenient sentencing for driving offences — such as the one in the Scotsman ( 5th ? |
| 7 | Children love balloons and these , placed on the front door , identifies your home as the one in the street where the special event is going to occur . |
| 8 | Did you hear about the one on the seat upstairs ? |
| 9 | Well him and that guy that I was talking about the one with the job . |
| 10 | We 'll talk about the one by the Theatre another day and see what people think about that . |
| 11 | ‘ Has he heard about the one in the hospital ? ’ |
| 12 | Hundred million , sorry er I got th I I missed off the nought on the end erm |
| 13 | An enquiry of the publisher might furnish you with material for another item ( with another cartoon , please , e.g. of the one with the girl who has collected toadstools and is saying scornfully to her friend who has gathered mushrooms : ‘ Dump those , they 're harmless ’ ) . |
| 14 | Erm , and it can , it can happen overnight , ca n't it , from some someone is er , he 's he 's he 's a bit of the one with the ladies . |
| 15 | Unlike Dudley he was well aware that merchants , a fast growing class , were not segregated from the gentry by an unbridgeable gulf , but ‘ often change estate with gentlemen , as gentlemen doo with them by a mutuall conuersion of the one with the other , . |
| 16 | It is not , however , a matter of ‘ reducing ’ sociological explanations to psychological , but of seeing the relevance of the one for the other . |
| 17 | I 'm going to fit it neatly into the neck of the one of the bottles . |
| 18 | Therefore , the policy suggestion that arises from theory is that in seeking to determine the effects of monopolisation it is necessary to weigh carefully the costs against the benefits , to examine the trade-off of the one against the other . |
| 19 | Many thinkers such as Owen , Fourier , Saint-Simon and Blanc saw the root of injustice as the competitive system of free markets , which led them to argue that the gulf between rich and poor and the exploitation of the one by the other , would not be abolished until some form of socialist state was established . |
| 20 | For marriage is a commitment to maximise the happiness and the fulfilment of the one by the other . |
| 21 | There were little tatters of paper at the bottom of the one by the fireplace , where the raffia and other handwork materials were kept , and Miss Fogerty looked at them with alarm and suspicion . |
| 22 | Behind the wrought-iron balustrade designed by Lutyens in the style of Louis XIV , the landing 's marble floor is a variation of the geometrical pattern of the one in the hall below . |
| 23 | There was another long banner , duplication of the one in the station , fastened to the side of the train , telling all the passengers what they were going on , if they were still in any doubt . |
| 24 | None was particularly dirty , but near the rim of the one nearest the door there was a smear of porridge-like mucus . |
| 25 | It was alright to come to your marriage , having been a bit of a one for the girls , but it was n't at all good to come to your marriage having been a bit of a one with the lads . |
| 26 | ‘ Bit of a one for the ladies . |
| 27 | It concerns certain members of this class , four to be precise , but it will , if it is to stand any chance of success , require the support of every one of you , of every one in the school , in fact . |
| 28 | Like the one about the army camp demonstration ? ’ |
| 29 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 30 | Urban Myths ( Virgin , £3.99 ) is a fun little stocking-filler of more than 200 tall tales that stretch truth to breaking point — like the one about the poodle in the microwave . |