Example sentences of "to one [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In the troubled politics of the city of Edinburgh in 1761 , Ilay and Milton made an easy friendship by offering , through the convener of trades , a post in the customs administration to one of the council deacons .
2 Even so eccentric a character as D. V. Karakozov , who attempted to assassinate Alexander II in 1866 , had gained direct experience while serving as an assistant to one of the peace arbiters appointed to work out the details of the Emancipation settlement .
3 ‘ Oh , no , you 're not , ’ the man repeated as he slapped the plate on to one of the let-down tables and began to eat .
4 She retreated to one of the dressing rooms across the corridor , switched off the lights , and set the door to give her an angle of view without much risk of being seen .
5 Alexei signalled to one of the engine tenders , and the man fiddled with the levers so that the rods rising and falling at the top of the funnel slowed jerkily and then stopped .
6 From then on it 's all down to the serious business of sunbathing on the sand interspersed with the occasional trip to one of the beach bars .
7 As each emerges , it is received by a worker and carried off to one of the nursery chambers , there to be carefully cherished .
8 Then one day , during rehearsal , John turned to one of the horn players and said , ‘ Okay , play freeform here … ’ and I thought , ‘ Freeform ?
9 One of my Hope patients was married to one of the subway workmen .
10 Damian took her to one of the balcony restaurants , and they shared a dozen fresh oysters on the shell in the cool sunlight .
11 Shortly after paying out , a decision was made to give individual ticket holders their money back or the choice of going to one of the Prince concerts due to be held this summer .
12 Thoroughly alarmed he leapt out , and there behind the truck , rather squashed , was the remains of a private car belonging to one of the Station officers .
13 As I was leaving the house Pat shouted after me , ‘ Piper , your friend Taff who shares the trench with you in the orchard has been transferred to one of the Commando units around the village .
14 ‘ I 'm sure I 'd be happier just going back to one of the Company offices on Mars , ’ she lied .
15 ’ He pointed to one of the monitor screens .
16 Having been responsible for recruiting patients to one of the landmark studies in this field , which Alberto Maran and colleagues reference , I can testify to what can happen in the heat of combat .
17 There is an American agency which , according to one of the trade papers , has the following statement about how it goes about making ads :
18 South Manchester Group Manager Tony Roberts presented the proceeds to one of the Appeal organisers watched by ( from left ) Alison Kilmartin , Sharon Harrop , Richard Valentine and Lisa Harrop .
19 It was a privilege for me to be invited to one of the Criterion Evenings which were held at irregular intervals at 24 Russell Square .
20 There again erm I think there 's still on the windows here , there 's still reference to one of the coal merchants I think is n't there ?
21 After the mother 's departure , he lost interest in the girl , turned over her upbringing to one of the house matrons .
22 The author of this celebrated Stuart cookery book was a professional cook whose father , also a professional , apprenticed him to Arthur Hollingsworth , cook and caterer to one of the City Guilds during the last years of the sixteenth century .
23 The Edinburgh curriculum covers similar ground , providing intensive language and cultural courses relating to one of the community countries , plus a range of core subjects designed to introduce students to the common denominators of European experience , Philosophical Tradition , History , Politics , Institutions and Legal Framework .
24 She drove Eva to one of the community homes where she was due to address a group of girls .
25 An excellent addition to one of the shareware greats .
26 An excellent addition to one of the shareware greats .
27 He put an arm around my shoulder and steered me to one of the leather sofas which had a girl where other sofas have cushions .
28 However , the list would be very much shorter for a about a small new extension to one of the production units enabling greater production of some Such a list would include the following sections :
29 ‘ The situation could arise whereby we all own different bits of the same story but we will only know that when we go to one of the television networks with a proposal . ’
30 The idea goes back to Anderson 's work in the 1930s , and Chandley 's explanation is that very occasionally the whole set of donkey chromosomes might cling together and pass to one of the egg cells while the entire horse set goes to the other .
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