Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one has yet hijacked a Trislander , but theoretically it could happen . |
| 2 | Of the students in my time , one has since become an archbishop , John Aung Hla ; another , John Maung Pe became the first bishop of Akyab , and another who came for a short term of study and an even shorter curacy was John Richardson , the saintly schoolteacher , catechist , priest and bishop in turn of Car Nicobar , where under his influence the whole of the island population , including witch doctors , became Christian . |
| 3 | In all my years in the Civil Service no one has ever brought a camera into the office and started taking snapshots ! |
| 4 | I 've talked to some of my son 's teachers about bullying in schools and they say that these children whom no one has ever laid a finger on can not imagine the pain they inflict on others . |
| 5 | ‘ One has long made a habit of beheading his wife at intervals in what is now my study : the other , a lady named Madam Sharpe , drops rings and other small objects into a china basin in my dressing room … . |
| 6 | Whether any of these works would not have been produced under a ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ regime is debatable , but what is not debatable is that being convicted and imprisoned does not necessarily mean that one has actually committed an offence nor that what that person produces is of no value to society . |
| 7 | that one uses today has a connotation of |
| 8 | The right one 's okay but the left one 's still got a bit of infection so they do n't really know |