Example sentences of "she [vb past] one [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Early in 1956 , at a Cambridge party to launch a student magazine , St Botolph 's , she met one of the contributors , the poet ( later poet laureate ) Ted Hughes , a recent graduate . |
2 | She became one of the vice-presidents of the London Society for Women 's Suffrage and was acting editor of the Common Cause in 1913 . |
3 | He upset Mary further by saying he thought Adam 's sister Bridget very attractive and it would be an inducement to him if she became one of the members . |
4 | Joyce was to meet her and work with her again before she became one of the defendants in the trials of 1945 . |
5 | Subsequently she became one of the queens of the Parisian demi-monde , ruling in the late 1860s over a loucher version of the Court from which she had been excluded . |
6 | After a moment she approached one of the step-ladders . |
7 | sick before because she ate one of the lads did n't fancy theirs . |
8 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
9 | She turned one of the barns into her studio . |
10 | She opened one of the cupboards . |
11 | Discarding pretence still further , she opened one of the drawers in the white chest of drawers , slamming it shut at once on the unfashionable baby clothes that Nannie had left in tidy small piles , washed and mended as though she had planned for them an after-life in which Nannie 's memory should have a lasting importance . |
12 | She opened one of the doors and climbed up , selecting a double seat for herself , sliding her suitcase between two seats . |
13 | ‘ You know what she 's going to tell him : that she has this dream , fantasy , God knows what it is , that she killed one of the kids . ’ |
14 | As she stared in terror , she heard one of the men say , ‘ He 's gone . ’ |
15 | She touched one of the trees , and the grey bark was deeply grooved , rasping her fingers . |
16 | And slowly in her quiet , beautiful voice , she repeated one of the verses : |
17 | The moment she hit one of the papers , she braked and went into a long skid , sliding right across the kitchen floor to the other wall , which she thumped into , still standing on her ‘ magic carpet ’ . |
18 | She took one of the biscuits ; they were Nice biscuits in the pretty floral tin today , quite her favourite ; she preferred them to Marie . |
19 | The circle was divided into four equal segments by two straight paths ; she took one of the paths . |
20 | Gedanken told Uncle Albert she knew one of the boys from school . |
21 | She remembered one of the ideas chucked around at the brainstorming session a week ago : a series on Eligible Males . |
22 | Her hands were often plastered , while there was one occasion when she made so fiery a contact with a clubface that she punched one of the knuckles out of position . |
23 | She wished that she had one of the dogs with her but both were with their master . |
24 | She said one of the bottles , containing cedarwood oil , used in aromatherapy , ‘ had only a warning to keep away from children , in very small letters ’ . |
25 | She recognized one of the females — Silver Birch — but there was a second female , now ; and like the female of the night before , she too had holly on her breast and back . |