Example sentences of "[adv prt] one of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William was in one of his father 's two dwellings on High Street , while Thomas had taken over one of the original Fountain Lane/Cowards Batch houses built by his forefather William a hundred years before . |
| 2 | On the second day , as we set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout , a sudden squall made us pleased at our foresight in bringing our Sprayway Torridon jackets along . |
| 3 | We set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout . |
| 4 | On the second day , as we set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout , a sudden squall made us pleased at our foresight in bringing our Sprayway Torridon jackets along . |
| 5 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 6 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 7 | Sue Seels , checkout assistant , tries out one of the new snack vending machines . |
| 8 | MORE THAN a thousand peace campaigners crowded into Trinity College , Dublin , last night to spell out one of the Irish capital 's most eloquent protests against IRA terrorism . |
| 9 | Fighting down an abrupt rush of fear as she zigzagged across the stone floor to avoid the rifle fire , Benny pulled out one of the small plastic sample bags she always carried , and dropped the paper on to which she had copied the drum 's label into it . |
| 10 | That would wipe out one of the central government 's most important sources of power : control over foreign-currency earnings . |
| 11 | With plastic surface boxes , punch out one of the thin plastic knockouts in the base of the box , and thread in the circuit cable . |
| 12 | MIKE BIRT kept his head in the choppy conditions at Hove to win round one of the British Funboard Cup . |