Example sentences of "one [pers pn] have [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That 's the one I 've been looking for ! |
| 3 | The moral common to these stories is one I have been emphasising throughout this discussion . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 7 | The one you 've been looking for for ages ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The one we 've been waiting for ever since we found the Worm . ’ |
| 12 | You are the one we have been waiting for . ’ |
| 13 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 14 | It was a house about two along from the one he had been looking at previously . |
| 15 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |