Example sentences of "not one [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Whereas the district in which we live is under an agreement between the three great companies — the Midland being one — that not one of them shall promote a railway in the district without the consent of all three companies ; the continuation of the Bishop 's Castle line is now saddled with the further condition that it shall not be made independently of the Corvedale line , whereas a proposal was made by one of the largest shareholders in the Cambrian to complete it independently of any other line . |
2 | ( 27 ) Not one of them dare support you . |
3 | Her husband , Uncle George , and their two daughters , Maggie and Marie , were like her , extremely short — not one of them would have reached the five foot mark . |
4 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
5 | Nay , for that matter , if you can set Mrs. Belville a-talking not one of you shall care to open you lips except to say as she says … |
6 | And not one of us must say a word about what we have found . ’ |
7 | Not one of us can look away . |
8 | I sing in a band , from time to time , a woman 's band , sort of a makeshift bossa nova affair , though not one of us can play a thing and we always need help from the boys . |