Example sentences of "one [pron] have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's their last song , the one everyone has been waiting for , it 's their biggest hit — it 's a hysterical cock-up . |
| 2 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
| 3 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 4 | That 's the one I 've been looking for ! |
| 5 | The moral common to these stories is one I have been emphasising throughout this discussion . |
| 6 | ‘ You must be the one , ’ said the young woman , ‘ You must be the one I have been waiting for , who must release me from enchantment . |
| 7 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 8 | The measure of life events used was one which had been developed by Brown over a number of years and represents a major methodological improvement over previous approaches . |
| 9 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |
| 10 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 11 | The feature usually described as predominant in Gothic buildings is the use of the pointed arch in place of the semi-circular one which had been employed in both Roman and Romanesque structures . |
| 12 | 3 ) , similar to one which had been advanced before the High Court of Australia in Jago v. District Court of New South Wales ( 1989 ) 168 C.L.R. 23 . |
| 13 | Reference has already been made to this and it has been emphasised that the requirement of a nominal monetary value is an arbitrary and illogical one which has been rejected in certain other common law jurisdictions . |
| 14 | It is reputed not to be a natural species , but one which has been created by Chinese fishbreeders . |
| 15 | One which has been dyed on the surface after the weaving has been completed . |
| 16 | If it seems odd to devote a chapter to one book , however important and significant , it must be appreciated that numerically it is by far the most commonly found book and one which has been published over such a long period that the collector will see it more frequently than any other . |
| 17 | It changes the taste of food to the extent that some dishes no longer appear to have any connection with their oil-less counterparts : a fresh sardine , for example , is quite different from one which has been transformed by being preserved in oil ( a point implied by the existence in the Czech language of two quite different words for the fresh and the oil varieties : a sardine in oil is called olejovka , from olej=oil ) . |
| 18 | Mr Wood has helped to nurse back to health badgers injured on the road or found orphaned but he has never come across one which has been used for baiting . |
| 19 | This medium is the one which has been used in many laboratory experiments on this plant . |
| 20 | The main reason that Marslen-Wilson and Tyler give for rejecting the idea that context can operate before any sensory information is received is one which has been used by many other theorists , including Fodor ( 1983 ) . |
| 21 | The laminated ball is fractionally lighter than the leather one which has been used by the Scottish League under its contractual agreement with another firm , Mitre , for the last 14 years . |
| 22 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 23 | The one you 've been looking for for ages ? |
| 24 | But do ask when you get back to the branch , because it samples claims that Abbey has , have had , erm , it reiterates the statistics that you 've just heard , the likelihood of somebody suffering with cancer , heart attacks , strokes etcetera , it er , gives you the ages er , if you choose , write in statistics , the one you 've been listening to . |
| 25 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 26 | When she changed schools , however , the maths A level course was different from the one she 'd been following at her old school , but the new teacher expected her to catch up immediately . |
| 27 | Agitated , Vincent went running to a painter called Weissenbruch to see if he was another one who had been poisoned by the gossip circulating against him . |
| 28 | He was quite a personable young man , but the Waaf I recognised instantly as the one who had been ejected from Hut 4 at Bourn for being dirty . |
| 29 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 30 | er up , one who 's been invited to one 's birthday party |