Example sentences of "one [noun] i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion I had some winter clothes brought in and it did take up literally half the visit , sorting all that out , and arguing about what I could and could n't have . |
| 2 | On more than one occasion I caught senior management using our symbolic disorder to dress down young constables . |
| 3 | One wife I knew fancied Stewart Granger , |
| 4 | Then one night I got some concrete , mixed it and filled every hole in the rock I thought the worm could escape through . |
| 5 | I used to call him Pear , and one day I had this tattoo done . |
| 6 | One day I bought six pomegranates on the way home — imagine it , six ! |
| 7 | One morning I called International Backside and Balvinder said he would be around in five minutes . |
| 8 | One summer I changed both sets of French windows for doors with Georgian frames . |
| 9 | But erm er so I thought that was er so that was the only thing that I would actually pick up on there erm and the one thing I noticed this time , and you did n't , I mean this was n't the case when you did erm the role play this morning , but this time , and I do n't know whether it was because you had less confidence with what , with actual talking about the product , but you had very little eye contact with Maggie . |
| 10 | Things have been stressfully buoyant at Chambers recently — one weekend I worked 13 hours on British Biographies — not my ‘ style ’ at all . |
| 11 | British Aerospace was brilliant , as long as I had , I had a good reason to go away they 'd give me , they said they 'd pay for , I mean one year I did six weeks away paid and then anot another year I did two months non pay and I still kept me job , that 's when I went up the for two months all I was just labour doing it then . |
| 12 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 13 | The one time I tried this year i ended up in some void somewhere . |
| 14 | The one time I tried this year i ended up in some void somewhere . |
| 15 | In fact at one stage I thought this lack of drama might make poor reading , however , as I progressed I realised that the Club 's story was a neat piece of social-history entwined with personalities and tested by problems . |