Example sentences of "[prep] one of [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local league officials have stepped in after one of the men 's teams they beat protested : ‘ We were indecently assaulted . ’ |
| 2 | Suddenly , he called out two licence plate numbers ; one of these , except for one digit , turned out to match the number plate of one of the kidnappers ' vans . |
| 3 | In the event of a failure of one of the lexicographers ' printers , the 3812 may be configured for their use . |
| 4 | He had come to supervise the slaughter of one of the nuns ' flocks which had been found to be infected with Salmonella typhimurium . |
| 5 | You ca n't imagine him going into one of the labourers ' cottages can you , Thérèse said , pulling on her nylons . |
| 6 | Most of the management and men lived locally in New Cumnock or in one of the miners ' rows in the district . |
| 7 | In his mind 's eye , Preston saw himself as the daddy in one of the twins ' bedtime books . |
| 8 | She had enjoyed bringing him goodies from the kitchen — ends of puddings in one of the dogs ' dishes , the last remains of cakes , meat , bones — only chicken bones , because they were so bad for the dogs . |
| 9 | Speaking to one of the workers in one of the children 's homes , said do you think that child prostitution in the children 's homes is something new because it 's on the front of the T and A ? |
| 10 | There 's a quotation here from one of the ladies ' magazines at the time : ‘ woman was given to man to be his better angel , to dissuade him from vice , to stimulate him to virtue , to make home delightful and life joyous , in the exercise of these gentle and holy charities , she fulfils her high vocation ’ — pretty inspiring stuff ! |
| 11 | Then in answer to Merrill 's raised eyebrows , ‘ They 're from one of the children 's homes . |
| 12 | There was the chemist who toyed with the possibilities of making synthetic gas for a balloon , the aerodynamic expert who planned to construct a glider out of bed boards , and the dog-lover who wanted to make himself a dog-skin out of an Irvin flying suit and crawl out as one of the guards ' Alsatians . |
| 13 | Delegates also expressed concern over the success of the anti-fur trade campaign , which had effectively shut down many of the markets for one of the Inuits ' principal exports . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) A reference to a Rule is a reference to one of the Solicitors ' Incorporated Practice Rules 1988 . |
| 15 | In fact I had it in mind that she might be trained up to one of the women 's auxiliary services which justified themselves so splendidly in the last war — the WRENS , I mean , of course . |
| 16 | Xorandor is capable of wordplay , he even puns on Shakespeare : ‘ softwarily we are observed ’ ( 179 ) , and he gives a reply to one of the twins ' questions that they later discover to have been ‘ syntactically clear but contextually ambiguous ’ ( 183–4 ) . |
| 17 | The youngest daughter Mary , a gifted academic in later life , was still at one of the Girls ' Public School Trust schools at Wimbledon , and the only son , Lancelot , was at Merchant Taylors ' School . |
| 18 | At the police station he was confronted by one of the children 's angry mother . |