Example sentences of "[art] [indef pn] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered which had come first , the chill and disenchantment of her worldly sophistication , or the lack of warmth in her son : and perhaps there was ice in both of them , and the one had reinforced the other . |
| 2 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 3 | The one sought to control the unconscious , the other to contemplate it . |
| 4 | The one illustrated shows the entrance to the main restaurant . |
| 5 | ‘ The morality of the one has determined the morality of the other and the disestablishment of the Church could save the monarchy because it would avoid embarrassment . ’ |
| 6 | The kind of entrepreneur required in a new and expanding industry is likely to be somewhat different from the one required to handle the contraction and reorganisation of an old staple industry . |
| 7 | The nought 's got a dot in the middle ! |
| 8 | Every one has enriched the pool of material available to the local historian . |
| 9 | Never a one has had a report of a missing child . ’ |
| 10 | No one expected to reverse the pull of 14 years of refugee resettlement overnight , and there is little doubt that voluntary repatriation would pick up speed if the Hong Kong authorities used quiet persuasion instead of the big stick . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ People witnessed the man running away , others reported a man hanging around in the area but no one admits seeing the assault happen . |
| 12 | The better they get , the better they could have been ; and no one likes to leave a past behind him that could have been better . |
| 13 | No one likes to bear the responsibility for such decisions . |
| 14 | No one had heard the jackals howling , but the dogs , alerted to something , had barked and barked . |
| 15 | The president waited before going on , to confirm that no one had missed the report . |
| 16 | No one had realized the seriousness of the illness , and the players only heard about his death from newspaper billboards on their way to the ground . |
| 17 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 18 | No one had tampered with it , no one had viewed the body within . |
| 19 | ‘ And no one had collected the keys during the day , not even the churchwardens ? ’ |
| 20 | The reason no one had developed a product before was Windows 3 toolkits did not appear until six months ago , Dawe claims . |
| 21 | He checked the bathroom and kitchen and only then stood up to look through the windows to be certain that no one had made a run for the trees . |
| 22 | He had been met by the Defence Ministry people , who had taken him directly from the aircraft steps , but no one had said a word on the way into the city . |
| 23 | No one had told the Poms they were meant to go quietly . |
| 24 | No one had put a name to the woman before . |
| 25 | But on reflection , she had realized that no one had taken the friendship with the USSR wholly seriously , and now the realization of how much worry it must have caused the Führer and ‘ the greatness of his diplomacy ’ made her feel ‘ quite small ’ . |
| 26 | I sometimes wonder if the reason I struggled with university mathematics was that no one had taken the trouble to express the mysteries of analysis in comic strip form . |
| 27 | I do now recall you saying no one had used the name in years . ’ |
| 28 | He peered into the binnacle as though checking that no one had stolen the compass . |
| 29 | When I was on the parapet of the convent wall I saw fresh horse dung lying near the main gate ; it was not from our mounts , but the lady prioress said no one had approached the convent . ’ |
| 30 | No one had driven the paint away on their tyres . |