Example sentences of "it was one " in BNC.
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1 | At first Sergeant Bramble thought it was one of the latest Atco motor-mowers but it seemed to be coming from above them . |
2 | It was one of my students . |
3 | She pressed on , walking when she was forced to until — she checked her watch — it was one o'clock . |
4 | It was one of the finest mountain panoramas and one of the finest of mountain days . |
5 | It was one of the very best I 've spent in 30 years of climbing round the world . |
6 | It was one of those rare occasions when neither of the Whitaker brothers reached the jump-off , but Skelton still had 11 to beat . |
7 | It was one of the perfect days — the high tide of this present time . |
8 | Raper was jailed for two years and Allen for six months , Sir Nicolas saying it was one of the most serious contempts he had ever come across . |
9 | He says it was one of the best sexual experiences he has ever had . ’ |
10 | IT WAS one of those days which news editors will remember on their death-beds . |
11 | I bet ya it was one of them that put that out of order . |
12 | It was one of the more effective Bolshevik controls as early as 1922 , and not only in negative ways . |
13 | It was one of those Bolshevik instruments of nation-wide control which will be studied in the next chapter . |
14 | It was one of the schools that came out of the Reformation , for it was founded during the reign of Queen Mary by a landowner who sat for Derbyshire in Parliament . |
15 | There is a good reason for this : with any luck , they will never be back there again , unless it was one of the great departments like the Treasury , Defence and the Foreign Office . |
16 | I did not know what ‘ cinema ’ was , it was one of those wonderful and unimaginable pleasures like La Semaine de Suzette and its doll Bleuette , which the war had taken away . |
17 | It was one of those gorgeous early mornings when the sun has just risen but it 's still dark enough to see the brightest stars . |
18 | It was one of the more simple reasons why she denied the pregnancy , even to herself , for so long . |
19 | Phoebe continually meant to buy blinds , blinds that would be ingeniously fitted into little runnels either side of the glass slopes , but it was one of those domestic chores that she had never managed to complete . |
20 | There was a momentary hesitation while he considered the implications , but it was one of the many challenges he could n't let go . |
21 | In the eighteenth century it was one of the main test cases for the dominance of geometry . |
22 | It was one thing to boast afterwards of pre-breakfast hiking , quite another to be actually seen leading this freak of nature , this abortion , about the public streets . |
23 | If 1936 was a sort of annus mirabilis far Jack , it was one of mixed happiness for Warnie . |
24 | It was one of the most enjoyable tours they had had . |
25 | ‘ It was one hell of a job , then , ’ Frank said , remembering the agony of the early days . |
26 | After all , it was one of the aims of the quota legislation to foster an industry that could promote Britain just as American films promoted America and , with only ten British films a year grossing £100,000 at the local box office , the financiers backing British film companies began to push for expansion . |
27 | ‘ It was one of those rough days , ’ Cooney admitted with a bruise under his left eye and a shining , tight patch of skin on his very large nose . |
28 | He opened his shop in Nurenburg selling radios and producing transformers in 1930 , and in 1945 he was allowed by the Allies to relocate his business in Furth , where it was one of the first to produce FM radios , then television sets — and high fidelity reel-to-reel tape recorders which serious musicians felt obliged to pay serious money for . |
29 | ‘ It was one of those rough days , ’ Cooney admitted with a bruise under his left eye and a shining , tight patch of skin on his very large nose . |
30 | It was one of the reasons that earlier discussions with Thames Television fell through — though Blackeyes was always designed as a movie or a BBC series . |