Example sentences of "one [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One of the most touching moments in the whole training period demonstrates this point , and it is just one of many special instances I can remember . |
| 2 | As we shall see in section 5.2 , this is only one of several curious features we come across when we try to think of the discount market in conventional terms . |
| 3 | They woke to one of those balmy days you get in midwinter when the frost has lost its grip and before the rains begin . |
| 4 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
| 5 | In one of those two cases we 've had inheritance tax to pay . |
| 6 | It might have been transported from the South of France , one of those lush semi-palaces I had only seen in photos . |
| 7 | We cut through Managers Street into Coldharbour — a narrow street , hard on the riverside , one of those enclosed lanes you find around docks . |
| 8 | Put it in one of those cardboard boxes we 've got . |
| 9 | I do n't know , it was just a novelty , we 'd never ever , I remember an , an aunt of ours that lived in Plymouth near us , she had a house with an upstairs , but she had a downstairs toilet , so we never got to go upstairs you know it 's just one of those stupid things I suppose , I , I thought it was great and another attraction was I think one of the main reasons you got us to really want to come to Harlow was the fact that we 'd have a television |
| 10 | Jancey 's cake is one of those ridiculous affairs you get by copying all the details of the Good Housekeeping recipe you usually leave out including the piped cream , split almonds , dates and cherries . |
| 11 | Blue watchers are saying that IBM chief John Akers will be out by March or April and that the company in its infinite wisdom will give the job to one of those retired IBMers it just just brought back from the pasture , probably Kaspar Cassoni . |
| 12 | By the time my article appeared , it resembled one of those selective reviews you see outside theatres . |
| 13 | One of those young men you see ? ’ |
| 14 | A failed marriage is one of those unconsidered trifles he might expect to sniff out . |
| 15 | How many shantytowns of the Third World would not cherish one of those suburban bungalows you so despise ? |
| 16 | One of those kittenish creatures he remembered from the films of his childhood in the Fifties , clad in waist-high , baby-doll nightdresses , women who seemed to enjoy nothing more than lying back among the yellow nylon sheets and allowing themselves to be strangled . |
| 17 | It was a curious ménage : the girl , the uncle , the grandmother — a solitary representative of each generation , like one of those squeezed houses you sometimes see with a single room on each storey . |
| 18 | A toneless , disjunctive fact , droll and very uneasy , one of those amputated thoughts I have just mentioned and –so a sensation , a crawling sensation of the time being out of joint ; there is more Hamlet to The Possessed than what is personal to Stavrogin , ‘ the Prince ’ as he first appears , though on the surface of his mind Dostoevsky evidently meant Prince Hal , not the Prince of Denmark . |
| 19 | Once over the col , the beeches give way to pine trees and on the Plateau de Bénou the view opens up hugely to the south , to the Pic de Sesques and beyond that to the remarkable double hump of the Pic du Midi d'Ossau , the highest of the Pyrenees so far , and one of those forceful contours you soon learn to pick out and name , however slow you may be , as I am , at the confident identification of peaks . |
| 20 | It 's just one of those little things you learn when you working on as many bloody years as I 've been now ! |
| 21 | It 's one of those little mikes they have on television . |
| 22 | one of these erm one of those green ones we broke . |
| 23 | One of those aimless youths you stumble over on their way from the pinball machine to the nearest shop that sells electrical equipment . |
| 24 | When he had one of these fancy feelings he was never entirely wrong . |
| 25 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 26 | It was just one of these regular lunch-parties he has so that he can keep in touch with people he would n't otherwise meet . |
| 27 | In one of these dusty tomes he read in wonderment of the treasures of Tutenkamen and it was this that ignited in young Garrett a fire of enthusiasm for treasure hunting that still burns strongly today . |
| 28 | One of these many memories I find myself repeating , even today is to retrace our Sunday morning walks from my home in Pilrig , Leith , to a hotel near the Tron Kirk ( where my aunt worked as a housekeeper ) stopping first at a statue , halfway up the Mound , of a kilted figure representing the Black Watch who died in the Boer War . |
| 29 | No problem it 's just g it 's a bit funny if there 's more than one of them if you get two or three you do n't say two ox if you had two or three boxes fine but with ox it 's one of these silly words you just have to remember it 's oxen . |
| 30 | And his father 's one of these obnoxious types you know ? |