Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] one " in BNC.

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1 Dehydration , er can produce death within a matter of fe , er a few hours and and an understanding of the mechanism by which this dehydration leads us into one of the most effective forms of heat treatment er , ever produced .
2 As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up .
3 Frankly , this proposal reminded me of one of the quotations with which Taylor prefaces his chapter on ‘ Value-added Processes in Information Analysis ’ :
4 Looking at the long sweep of the historical past , Temple had seen that ‘ Historical analogies lead us to one conclusion only ’ — that subject races invariably at some point regain their liberty .
5 Some stories give you in one or two pages exactly enough information about why two people wo n't ever get on , the divisions between them and so on .
6 A theatrical gentleman approached me after one of the performances , said he was impressed by my singing , and that he could obtain a part for me with the Schikenader Company in Vienna .
7 Another couple tried it on one of my trains a month or so ago .
8 How ironic , Antonietta 's mother remarked , that it took a young lady from a foreign country to educate them about one of their own artists !
9 That disenchantment prompted him into one further expression of his views before the beginning of the war .
10 It 's an ill wind that blows nobody any good , thought Neil platitudinously , as a large bruiser pushed him against one of the pillars of the Haymarket Theatre — I might get my nose broken , but at least my virtue looks like remaining intact !
11 Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street 's most charismatic figures .
12 How many cases do you as one barrister have to deal with at the moment ?
13 When Christ , beaten and weak , is made to carry the cross , the long version presents it as one element in a series which together compose a " ruful "
14 After Labour won the 1945 election , Burke accompanied Attlee to the Potsdam Conference ; and later that year the Prime Minister named him as one of his private secretaries .
15 Then the hotel ( ‘ Charlie sent us , ’ ) and the assistant manager drawing her to one side ( ‘ I 'm putting you in a suite for a couple of hours .
16 Curiously , this futuristic notion returns us to one of the earliest electronic book models which we described in the original report .
17 People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night .
18 Its anonymous diarist writes : ‘ Disturbing rumours reach me about one of our political figures … it is said that the man , who has a charming wife , has had affairs with five different women …
19 The working of a material can convert kinetic energy into potential energy as an aesthetic process ; just as the energy expended in lifting a one kilogramme weight to a height of one metre invests it with one kgm of potential energy .
20 Caroline paced her bedroom , her furious steps taking her from one end of the handsome room to the other .
21 The development of this part of the plot is swift , Lear 's impatient anger leading him from one self-imposed crisis to another .
22 He felt unseen hands help him into one of the partitioned stalls and there he stretched out and closed his stinging eyes .
23 If he could find convincing words to say it in one striking and memorable phrase , he might be truly on his way .
24 He closed the two feet separating them in one angry stride and caught her white face between his hands , his gaze savage , ‘ You think hearing you say you love me embarrasses me ? ’
25 The 55-year-old 's icy calm distinguished him as one of General Norman Schwarzkopf 's closest aides during the Gulf War .
26 QB 1 's estimated diameter of 200 km puts it at one tenth the size of Pluto : much larger , and the whole distinction between planets and minor planets would be thrown into doubt .
27 Villa Banfi is an American firm which bought an abandoned estate in an area famous for its wine production , and through massive investment developed it into one of the largest single enterprises of its kind in Europe .
28 She 'd probably have the bad taste to put him in one of her cynical , satirical stories .
29 This last line reminds us of one of the most famous weather forecasting rhymes :
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