Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] one [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 2 | I asked one of the Commandos lifting the dead Germans . |
| 3 | I asked one of the medics who was unloading the wounded . |
| 4 | For one thing , I doubled one of the songs using a Gibson Chet Atkins model . |
| 5 | At tea I made one of the mistakes of my life . |
| 6 | That morning I went to the hospital with the excuse of visiting an old woman who was a patient , and while I was there I met one of the carabinieri in the corridor . |
| 7 | Halvard , I compressed one of the files ok and then mailed it to myself first to see if I was getting everything right . |
| 8 | did n't turn up so I got one of the teachers . |
| 9 | At any moment I expected one of the masters , placed at strategic intervals to stop a guy taking short cuts or lighting up a Havana cigar , to leap out from a place of concealment , brandishing The Times and bellowing , ‘ Come on , Britton ! |
| 10 | With an eye on the corridor outside , I tried one of the latches and was n't surprised to find it locked . |
| 11 | I found one of the drummers and let him have a tape and he loved it . |
| 12 | ‘ I found one of the men who killed her , Little Father . |
| 13 | When I arrived home from my own ( family ) outing that evening I phoned one of the lads , expecting to hear some good news . |
| 14 | I recognised one of the Commandos as someone I knew before the war . |
| 15 | As I sorted uninterestedly through the box I dropped one of the pages of dried flowers , to which was attached a sheet of paper with additional notes . |
| 16 | I joined one of the work-parties and helped rebuild cleits and repair storm damage around the cottages . |
| 17 | I opened one of the doors and Al Waxman opened the other , and there was Michael sitting on the floor in the wardrobe . |
| 18 | I heard one of the constables say he was a tip-top detective from London . ’ |
| 19 | Eventually , someone broke one of the windows in the lavatory and hurled a large piece of glass onstage at Vega and after only three songs , he left the stage . |
| 20 | Eventually , someone broke one of the windows in the lavatory and hurled a large piece of glass onstage at Vega and after only three songs , he left the stage . |
| 21 | I grabbed one of the midwives , the senior one there , and I said to her , what happens now ? |
| 22 | One Christmas I hit one of the nuns and they expelled me . |
| 23 | As I watched one of the boys smother Fireman Sam in milk and Shreddies , the others persuaded me to stay . |
| 24 | His name did n't come out in court , but I knew one of the women involved . |
| 25 | I knew one of the girls and er she never got right properly again . |
| 26 | ( Plus I knew one of the kids was trying to escape all the time ) It ca n't be much fun being locked up there It really sounds like a POW story . |
| 27 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |
| 28 | I took one of the suitcases of clothes I had brought with me and went to Newhaven to get the boat for Dieppe . ’ |
| 29 | It was with absolute truth that I answered one of the interviewers who asked ‘ Are you a bird of passage by choice or do you really wish for a steady job ? ’ |
| 30 | I thought I was ever so clever and I wanted everyone to hear me , so each time I spotted one of the neighbours near our house I would bang out the tune . |