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Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The site manager said : ‘ At one point he wanted hand-made mahogany shelves either side of the fireplace in the lounge to house his compact discs and other hi-fi equipment .
2	At one point it boasted 13 members who were admirals — not many clubs in the world can stage an annual match called Admirals v The Rest .
3	It 's designed to sleep two or three but on one occasion we had four adults sleeping inside .
4	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 .
5	On more than one occasion I caught senior management using our symbolic disorder to dress down young constables .
6	One wife I knew fancied Stewart Granger ,
7	Then one night I got some concrete , mixed it and filled every hole in the rock I thought the worm could escape through .
8	Then one day we saw some people on the shore — strange , wild people , who did not look friendly .
9	One day he brought disturbing news .
10	One day he met some sea canoeists who had crossed Luce Bay .
11	While I was talking to Metsola one day he swallowed some medicine .
12	One day she amassed ten pounds from those careless customers who did not count their change .
13	I used to call him Pear , and one day I had this tattoo done .
14	One day I bought six pomegranates on the way home — imagine it , six !
15	At one extreme he feared communist adventurism in the Far East , and at the other a resurgence of isolationism among the American public once the Soviets had acquired a significant nuclear capability targeted on the United States .
16	Well only one week you paid three pound , come off it .
17	WYCOMBE went home with everything but the one prize they wanted last night — a place in the third round of the FA Cup .
18	One morning he decided any pupil caught saying the word ‘ shrubbery' ’ was to be punished .
19	One morning he packed 47 boxes .
20	One morning I called International Backside and Balvinder said he would be around in five minutes .
21	One summer I changed both sets of French windows for doors with Georgian frames .
22	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 .
23	For one thing he needed hard evidence , and to get it he would have to show his hand .
24	That s one reason we suffered last year .
25	One weekend he bought two postcards of the Adam 's Creek power station at night ( they were the only postcards there were ) and sat down at his rickety table by the window with a pen .
26	Things have been stressfully buoyant at Chambers recently — one weekend I worked 13 hours on British Biographies — not my ‘ style ’ at all .
27	This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs !
28	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 .
29	For one year he had intensive treatment , with the physiotherapist and speech therapist attending his home three times a week .
30	Russia 's problem was strategically different but no less daunting , for though she had only one front she faced two enemies : Germany and Austria-Hungary .