Example sentences of "i [verb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a compensation scheme and the laibon wishes me to drive one of his sons fifty miles to a small town to collect the papers . |
| 2 | Perhaps you might even allow me to borrow one of your people as a guide around the city . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The guiding principle for the Government , she said , was that health care should be provided for all regardless of ability to pay : ‘ Let me make one thing absolutely clear . |
| 5 | ‘ Let me make one thing clear . |
| 6 | But Ferguson insisted : ‘ Let me make one thing crystal clear — Manchester United wo n't bottle it on the last lap of the championship . |
| 7 | ‘ I think I am being very reasonable , and let me make one thing quite clear . |
| 8 | You would n't catch me using one of them . |
| 9 | Somebody took me to see one of their pubs in Liverpool it was wonderful ! |
| 10 | Marie told me she 'd teach me to swim one day . |
| 11 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 12 | I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally . |
| 13 | I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) . |
| 14 | In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community . |
| 15 | And then of course as soon as I started the chemotherapy I became one of them and I started not to notice . |
| 16 | dir : Could I make one last suggestion ? |
| 17 | Can I make one more suggestion one , to combine two of these to call it Southwell Centenary Park , would that make it any better ? |
| 18 | May I make one or two observations and then I 'll finish . |
| 19 | I asked one of the Commandos lifting the dead Germans . |
| 20 | I asked one of the medics who was unloading the wounded . |
| 21 | I asked one evening . |
| 22 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 23 | When , a few days later , I asked one morning , " When a hen lays an egg , does it come out of hen 's beak ? " a deathly hush fell over the breakfast table . |
| 24 | By now we were amongst a group of riotous children , and I asked one of them if the festival were now over . |
| 25 | I asked one lecturer " What do you wish me to do now ? " and his answer was " That 's for you to decide . |
| 26 | I asked one of them . |
| 27 | And at night I asked one of the young men who was helping us , one who had come with the carters , to help me load the saint on to the wagon , to go to Ramsey to the aid and succour of our misused house . |
| 28 | Because I know I asked one of my friends |
| 29 | I asked one pupil if he ever said Grace . |
| 30 | I knew the children were not usually encouraged to guess so I asked one boy directly . |