Example sentences of "one [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one day , when searching for a mattress , because I had put one of ours from the melin into one of the cottages , we were confronted with a problem we had n't anticipated . |
| 2 | He poured wine into two of the cups and slid one of them across the table so that it was within Sidacai 's reach . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ I hit one of them over the head in the bedroom and then I got going . |
| 4 | The customer services team are rarely seen by customers but maintain close contact with every one of them over the telephone . |
| 5 | The gardens of the Manor Road houses went through to one side of Fair View Road and my cousin pointed out a Nissen Hut in one of them as the garage rented by Mr. Rogers where the fateful taxi had been kept . |
| 6 | Tutilo stood staring in bewilderment from one of them to the other , without understanding , almost without recognition . |
| 7 | First he returned one of them to the brass container . |
| 8 | He just managed to beat one of them to the receiver . |
| 9 | She held the faded spine of one of them to the light so that she could read the lettering : ‘ Journal of Martin J. Beale 1852–67 . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll have one of them with the pink on top . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd like one of them for the landing . |
| 12 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 13 | They waved them around , chanting ‘ burn the commie , burn the commie ’ until Uncle Sam cuffed one of them around the ear . |
| 14 | It 's hit towards the halfway line , Alan the sole defender for Blackburn at the moment , he plays it to his right , forward it goes to now that 's a good ball down the far side of the field , plenty of er men available , 's one of them inside the penalty area , the cross was n't so good from and it 's gon na run harmlessly behind for a goal kick . |
| 15 | ( By 1981 , sixteen States had passed Equal Rights Amendments to their own State Constitutions , only one of them in the South — Arkansas : interestingly , Illinois passed its own , while failing to ratify the Federal amendment . ) |
| 16 | And three times since breakfast she found unauthorized people prowling around — one of them in the labor room , no less ! |
| 17 | I could with ease place my arm on the roof as I stood by one of them in the road . |
| 18 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 19 | Put one of them in the box . |
| 20 | I put one of them in the box ! |
| 21 | ‘ Have n't you ever wanted to chuck one of them in the canal ? |
| 22 | Sharon gets to wear nice clothes , live in two swankyhouses ( one of them by the beach ) , chainsmoke , and be enigmatic about whether or not she 's a killer bimbo . |
| 23 | The only clues to the identity of the telephone bidders was that German was spoken to one of them by the saleroom staff . |
| 24 | The girls got up to leave , and he grabbed one of them by the arm , rough in his treatment . |
| 25 | He had discharged one of them from the infirmary in no worse condition than when he had arrived . |
| 26 | It is that two lexical units will be assigned to the same lexeme if there exists a lexical rule which permits the prediction of the existence of the sense of one of them from the existence of the sense of the other . |
| 27 | When McMahon received a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury in answer to one of his to the effect that God Almighty still loved him , he replied that a certain quotation always stayed with him : ‘ I rage , I melt , I burn . |
| 28 | I wish to thank each and every one of you for the part you played during 1991 . |
| 29 | I shall throw my bouquet to one of you at the wedding and who knows , there might be another wedding in the not too distant future for somebody . |
| 30 | It was particularly appropriate , given that the sponsor was the Baptist Missionary Society , that the most moving moments were from Roberts as Peter , lyrically declaring ‘ Repent and be baptised every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ . ’ |