Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one cries we all cry . |
| 2 | Of course , they may not accept the beliefs , attitudes , or intentions that are expressed ; one can always object to what somebody else says , but it does not make much sense to do this unless one understands its meaning . |
| 3 | As one looks along the line of great bishops stretching back to Boniface and Wilfrid and the great Gallic and Spanish bishops of a still earlier age , one understands what impressed these writers . |
| 4 | The language was compulsory but no one understands it , not a word , nothing . |
| 5 | ‘ No one understands my speedboat the way your brother does . ’ |
| 6 | One fulfills our needs . |
| 7 | J. R. R. Tolkien was born in South Africa , to be sure , Iris Murdoch in Dublin and Tom Stoppard in Czechoslovakia , but they settled into their lifelong home in childhood , and no one doubts they are British authors . |
| 8 | Somehow one doubts it . |
| 9 | No one doubts my opposition and total opposition to violence . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ And I 'm sure no one doubts your knowledge and ability in this job . |
| 11 | If there is a name signed inside the card you 've got a ninety per cent chance of , its a hoax , no one signs their name in front of a card . |
| 12 | Similarly , higher spin particles look the same if one turns them through smaller fractions of a complete revolution . |
| 13 | All this seems fairly straightforward , but the remarkable fact is that there are particles that do not look the same if one turns them through just one revolution : you have to turn them through two complete revolutions ! |
| 14 | Wherever one turns there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of old-fashioned roses and Piranesi urns , most of which are mounded and framed a little more elaborately , shall we say , than their modest charms seem to merit . |
| 15 | Only if one turns it round a complete revolution ( 360 degrees ) does the particle look the same . |
| 16 | A particle of spin 2 is like a double-headed arrow ( Fig. 5.1-iii ) : it looks the same if one turns it round half a revolution ( 180 degrees ) . |
| 17 | That 's , this one shuts it off . |
| 18 | OH NO , LOOK AT THAT TOO Just when one thinks one 's getting on top of it one finds a bit of a tum . |
| 19 | At that age one thinks one is going to live for ever ! ’ |
| 20 | Outer observation is inherently fallible : one may not actually be perceiving what one thinks one is perceiving . |
| 21 | As is often the case , what one actually hears and what one thinks one hears , can be two very different things . ’ |
| 22 | The less one is who one thinks one ought to be , the more one is who one is . |
| 23 | Even if one thinks one 's own company will not reduce costs further , it is dangerous to make the same assumption for one 's rivals . |
| 24 | Ah well , when one thinks one sees these differences , and I believe that they are real . |
| 25 | One thinks himself the master of others , and still remains the greater slave than they . |
| 26 | No one thinks it an important proposition that what promotes survival of the human species promotes survival of the human species . |
| 27 | The first thing to get straight about Zurich is that it is not the capital of Switzerland , though there are times when one thinks it ought to be , and others when one gets the impression that it would not mind at all if it was . |
| 28 | So no one thinks it 's on . |
| 29 | If one separates them , it may be assumed that vocational courses are more valid than non-vocational , but nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 30 | ‘ Many battles have I fought , but it is the memory of that one chills me most . |