Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mills had modified his style to one more in keeping with the sober classicism of the court . |
| 2 | So were Mrs Patel 's , who had cocked her head on one side to listen better . |
| 3 | One was a young man from the shop-floor who 'd got a metal splinter in his eye and the other was a secretary who had caught her heel in one of the open staircases and twisted her ankle . |
| 4 | I got to the ground early and strung up a ‘ Well done Les ’ banner over the turnstile , but in less than ten minutes Micky Deere had wiped his nose on one end and cleaned last week 's mud off his boots with the other . |
| 5 | It had n't helped the economics , of course , that the nuclear industry had shifted its allegiance from one reactor design to another , scattering new research expenditure as it went . |
| 6 | Tethlis 's heart was filled with a terrible cold hatred for the children of Naggaroth , for they had slain his family in one of their many raids . |
| 7 | Nuri had gained his way on one thing . |
| 8 | The brambles of the garden had forced their way through one pane , and stretched in over the ledge , curling upwards like long scrawny fingers . |
| 9 | And I remembered how my father had once interfered when Bobby 's wife Ena had lost her temper with one of her sons . |