Example sentences of "one [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am now describing , incidentally , is one of many instances I could relate to you to underline Lord Darlington 's essentially shy and modest nature . |
| 2 | For the base Chaplain , this was just one of several funerals he 'll be presiding over during the next few days . |
| 3 | Latin 's not one of those languages you can teach with tape-recorders and acting little plays . |
| 4 | ‘ Because that 's one of those questions we could debate for some considerable time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And one of those times I must have crossed into someone else 's territory . ’ |
| 6 | Victor : he 's one of those guys you used to see in spunky films about British Tommies — sit him on an ammo box in the back of a rolling three-tonner and he 's asleep in a twinkling . |
| 7 | ‘ I feel like one of those canaries they used to send into mines . ’ |
| 8 | They had one of those gyroscopes you can go in and you can spin round . |
| 9 | So this business of of understanding how it happened from the , in inverted commas , victim 's point of view um this business of understanding the subsequent effects , this business of understanding the extent , ah are all enormously problematic and um it 's one of these things I would n't particularly like to have to design a survey of because it 's absolutely fraught with difficulty but nevertheless some some attempts have been made um as I have indicated . |
| 10 | Whether they believe that we change through investigation of the unconscious mind , through investigation of the relationship that forms between a therapist and client , through group experience or through changing patterns of behaviour will depend to some extent on which one of these experiences they can best identify with themselves . |
| 11 | You will take one of these blocks you will wet it for a certain time and you |
| 12 | But if , say , a working semi-pro guitarist really wanted one of these machines he 'd justify the outlay ( about the same price as a PRS Custom ) with the many user benefits that would accrue from it . |
| 13 | If one plucks a piece from one of these plants it will almost certainly break along one of the numerous joints that divide the whole plant into segments , right to the tips of the branchlets . |
| 14 | ‘ One of these evenings I 'll arrange it . |
| 15 | If you did n't join one of these organizations you could n't go to school . |
| 16 | Next time he came on one of these recces he would bring a bag for these trophies , but the chinagraph pencil had worked well in noting on his slate the depths of water and the position of that false beach . |
| 17 | But i if while we 've got them we will still be there we will still be called to put them out and one of these days we 'll be dealing with bonfires when somebody 's house is on fire and we need to be there instead . |
| 18 | One of these days they 'll just vanish from the face of the earth and never be seen again . |
| 19 | ’ One of these days she 'll go too far . |
| 20 | One of these days he 'll crucify them . |
| 21 | ‘ One of these days he 'll catch you at it , ’ Emily answered . |
| 22 | One of these days he 'll go too far ! ’ |
| 23 | One of these days I 'll make you eat your words ! ’ |
| 24 | One of these days I 'll go out like this and scare the whole population , 'cos they 'll think I 'm in me bare pelt . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ One of these days I 'll wire up her electric toothbrush … ’ |
| 26 | But one of these days I 'll fit the puzzle together and find out what kind of woman you really are . ’ |
| 27 | Which is One of these days I 'll do this on graph paper . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll let it go this time Gatesey , but one of these days I shall have to give you what I should have given you when we were kids . ’ |
| 29 | One of these days I shall start up a school like that . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose one of these days you 'll be getting yourself a skirt . ’ |