Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] was one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police say it was one of the worst attacks that they 've seen on a horse . |
| 2 | I confess she was one of the merriest tumbles I have ever had . |
| 3 | As I believe I was one of the earliest users in the country of county wartime incident archives from 1949 onwards , here are some East Anglian pointers . |
| 4 | They had such nice manners and treated me like one of their own , so I reckon I was one of the lucky ones . |
| 5 | ‘ Well … suppose it was one of the passengers who wanted to stop the train getting happily to Vancouver , what could he do ? ’ |
| 6 | I believe he was one of the many aircraft that General Galland 's flying wing and the German Navy shot down on route through the narrows of the Channel . |
| 7 | ‘ I bet it was one of the Muggeridges , ’ said Tilney . |
| 8 | Erm mind you it was really a step onto something else that as far as I was concerned in those days I meant o go to sea of course and er that was the best place you could have er to serve an apprenticeship because everything er I mean it was one of the As everything was starting to get specialized in in other works nowadays it 's gone completely now . |
| 9 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 10 | Cos I had studied the chart to k know something about er and I I presume I was one of the few people in New York , who knew the damn thing was on 's Island you see . |
| 11 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 12 | David had always liked Mott The Hoople and admired them , and I think it was one of the few really unselfish acts he did when , when they were on the verge of breaking up , he wrote them a song — ‘ All The Young Dudes ’ . |
| 13 | And it was one of the critici criticisms that came out of the er I think it was one of the annual general meetings non-executive directors in there to oversee er basically as another control against Mister himself I suppose really at the end of the day . |
| 14 | And must have been I think it was one of the things that that helped to lead to a more settled period . |
| 15 | I think it was one of the best in the country , and I 'm I 'm serious about that . |
| 16 | I think it was one of the reasons why you did n't see so many malai women with long fingernails . |
| 17 | I think it was one of the signalmen or |
| 18 | ‘ Success on Just Do It was one of the most intense moments of my life . |