Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is n't a good idea to climb hills after eating at the Naked Man — ideally you should find a quiet corner and sleep it off like a boa constrictor does after it has swallowed a goat or two too many . |
| 2 | You notice time and time again that one of them keeps reading a newspaper instead of working . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course , all the islands are volcanic in the sense that they 've been thrown up from the depths by submarine upheavals thousands of years ago ; but only one of them 's got a crater . |
| 4 | ‘ One of them 's got a stethoscope , ’ she said . |
| 5 | And one of them 's got a brother in the IRA . |
| 6 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 7 | For example , if there are several quite unrelated species of unpalatable butterflies living in one particular region and one of them has evolved a warning pattern of black , yellow and red markings , it will pay the others to follow suit because they will then all share the ‘ training risks ’ associated with novice predators . |
| 8 | And one of them has had a day off . |
| 9 | Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’ |
| 10 | Not one of them has won a card to play on the Volvo Tour . |
| 11 | There are various means of inducing hypnosis — but not one of them includes swinging a watch on a chain before your eyes ! |
| 12 | What I want you to do is in your couples I want one of you to pretend that one of you 's got a grievance okay , think about it before you do it . |
| 13 | Every one of you has made a contribution to the character of this institution and I take pleasure in acknowledging what each of you has done to make this such a satisfying academic and social environment . |
| 14 | ‘ But one of you has to make a start , Amy . |
| 15 | Each of you has taken an oath to return a true verdict according to the evidence , but , of course , you have a duty not only as individuals , but collectively . |
| 16 | A friend of mine 's got a yacht . |
| 17 | The director of a bank in Ljubljana has said ( Politika , 8 October 1987 ) : ‘ It is clear that none of us has become a director without the approval of the Party 's cadres section . |
| 18 | That 's why he 's in Bradford right now and I 'm here in Sardinia — because each of us has to make a living . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I have written to him , and the firm 's solicitor has written to him , but neither of us has got an answer . |
| 20 | Elsewhere one of us has offered an opinion on that question , together with appropriate supporting evidence . |
| 21 | The worst she could do was to bring that Tuscan adventurer into the family , since when none of us has had a moment 's peace . |
| 22 | And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's incredible that a little league like ours has won a victory at the highest level in the world , ’ says Kip . |
| 24 | With it has sprung a variety of names and product descriptions with some of the more common being ‘ germicidal detergent ’ ; ‘ detergent sanitiser ’ ; ‘ detergent sterilant ’ and the simple ‘ sterilant ’ These titles and any combination thereof all mean one thing namely a sanitiser . |
| 25 | You ca n't sort of like you wan na put shelves up and do things to the house , that 's what keeps her going , wan na put the rent up it 's got a lot of disadvantages . |
| 26 | I wo n't beat about the bush about creeping privatisation because in it 's become a stampede . |
| 27 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |
| 28 | Jung suggests that ‘ something in us wishes to remain a child ; to be unconscious or at most conscious only of the ego ; to reject everything foreign , or at least subject it to our will ; to do nothing , or , in any case , to indulge our own craving for pleasure or power . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Well , ’ continued Gloria between swallows of coffee , ‘ the lady what polishes the cars for him has got a sister what does cleaning at Stowbridge Tech . ’ |
| 30 | Someone close to me has had a cataract operation in both eyes . |