Example sentences of "one [prep] they [verb] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither had practised archery before becoming immobile ; one of them had been taught the art at Pinderfields Hospital at Wakefield and had gone on to become captain of his club . |
| 2 | One of them had been watching him recently . |
| 3 | Only two patients thought that they had not been told enough , even though one of them had been given the very detailed sheet . |
| 4 | One of them had been blown up four times , minesweeping during the First World War , and in consequence had a chronic twitch . |
| 5 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 6 | There was a vacancy for a permanent inspector , for one of them had been promoted to be solicitor of customs , and Robert Fullerton was considered satisfactory by the customs commissioners . |
| 7 | There were ten brown , droplet pips arranged neatly around the central point — not one of them had been harmed or dislodged by the cut of the knife . |
| 8 | In different degrees , both the earlier tsars had devoted their first years on the throne to improving the condition of the empire , but one of them had been distracted by Napoleon and the other by foreign war and a rebellion in Poland . |
| 9 | Prior to 1917 there had been two annual fairs ( iarmarki ) in the area , but only one of them had been revived in 1921 , with a quarter of its previous turnover . |
| 10 | They were withdrawn almost immediately , but not before one of them had been sold to an unkown customer . |
| 11 | I think one of them has been trying to talk to me . ’ |
| 12 | They are all listed , and not one of them has been denied . |
| 13 | We have actually four questions and three subordinate questions which we were addressing and only one of them has been resolved so far and that is whether the Chairman of the Police Authority should be appointed by the Home Secretary or by the Authority and we are I think all have to agree that it should be by the latter . |
| 14 | There are other difficulties in making an order in such a case as this where a number of defendants have been equally involved in committing a crime , for the purpose of which a vehicle belonging to one of them has been used . |
| 15 | " Not one of them has been stolen since the seed was sown . |