Example sentences of "he [was/were] one [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not that he could not write , as he spoke , fluently and well : talking with him was one of the pleasures of life . |
| 2 | He was one of the leaders of reform during the nationalist revival . |
| 3 | He felt he was involved in some royal masque , a diversion , a play where he was one of the mummers , blundering around in the dark to the silent laughter of an audience who always stayed in the shadows . |
| 4 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 5 | I know that he was one of the ones who resented the rise of the military . |
| 6 | er and he was one of the kingpins building the swimming pool |
| 7 | I also met the Marquess of Hartington , who , since he took over as Senior Steward of the Jockey Club in July , has worked extremely hard and is already greatly respected in that role ; also Mr and Mrs Johnny Henderson who were shortly off after a business trip to Australia via Bangkok , and home via Dubai , where alas , they arrive after I will have left : Mr and Mrs Malcolm Kimmins , he was one of the stewards ; the Hon. |
| 8 | In 1686 he was one of the stewards of the Oxford and Oxfordshire feast ; and when the university went in ceremonial procession to meet James II in 1687 , he deputized for the superior bedel of arts . |
| 9 | He was one of the revisers of the edition of 1850 issued by Patrick Torry [ q.v. ] , bishop of St Andrews . |
| 10 | There he was one of the militants who started the strike-waves rolling in the car industry — the first ‘ political ’ strikes . |
| 11 | Gen Schwanitz 's appeal , however , is unlikely to work because he was one of the deputies of Mr Erich Mielke , the now disgraced former minister for state security . |
| 12 | He was one of the pioneers in opening up archaeology to everyone , both through his books and through radio and television appearances . |
| 13 | Among the trick films , for example , he made use of double exposure as early as eighteen ninety-eight in a group of films , these are titles , ‘ Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother ’ , ‘ The Mesmerist ’ , ‘ The Corsican Brothers ’ , things like this , and he was one of the pioneers incidentally of the close-up . |
| 14 | Richard Gittins I , a rich Shrewsbury tanner , had arrived as tenant of Eagle Farm by 1528 , when he was one of the jurors of the manor court . |
| 15 | ‘ He was one of the students who rented the Pitt house in Church Street , they were missing for a while . |
| 16 | In 1889 he was one of the delegates to the International Congregational Council in Boston , and he made several further trips to North America , including one in 1907 to give the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale University . |
| 17 | He did not take sides against Abstraction , even though he was one of the organisers of a Surrealist exhibition in London in 1937 . |
| 18 | He was one of the managers who drew up the articles of impeachment of Henry Dundas , first Viscount Melville [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | He was one of the co-founders of the Screenwriters ' Guild in 1933 . |
| 20 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 21 | Not content to remain secreted in his workshop he is founder and president of the Ely Guild of Woodturners , and he was one of the demonstrators at last year 's seminar of the Association of Woodturners of Great Britain . |
| 22 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 23 | And he er , went to work one morning and they he , they says to him you 're wanted in the office , and he came in the office and he was one of the gaffers , you know |
| 24 | He was one of the founders of the National Liberal Club , and of the White Cross Society . |
| 25 | He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress in 1885 and presided at the 1886 and 1893 sessions . |
| 26 | Fascinated by the possibilities of wire broadcasting , he was one of the founders in 1931 of Rediffusion , the name of which was suggested by him . |
| 27 | In 1911 he founded the Glasgow Music Festival and in 1921 he was one of the founders of the British Federation of Music Festivals . |
| 28 | From 1853 he served in Bengal , where he was one of the secretaries to the Board of Revenue at Calcutta , commissioner of Cooch Behar ( 1874 ) , district judge in Dingepore and Nuddea , and magistrate and collector in several districts including Midnapore ( 1866–71 ) , Shahabad ( 1877 ) , and Hooghly . |
| 29 | We had no money in our pockets , but er we 're talking about er er er economics , and Marxian economics at that , er and funnily enough the chap the chap who did that , er Bert , he was unemployed , he was he was one of the fellows from Derbyshire who was victimized in Derbyshire . |
| 30 | Yavlinsky had first outlined his ideas — in effect a revival of the 1990 Shatalin " 500 day " plan [ see p. 37722 ] of which he was one of the authors — at a G-7 conference in Washington in April . |