Example sentences of "one [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a castle acted as one of a related group it could provide defence in depth : an army could be inhibited from penetrating behind a group of castles by the threat to its communications which they provided , and the danger of attack from the rear . |
| 2 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's as good , for his age , as they 've got , and his wife is one of the sweetest women I know in this town . |
| 4 | Supt Bernie Holmes who was heading the search said last night that this was one of the saddest cases he has ever had to deal with . |
| 5 | He could appreciate that a collection might become the last refuge and hope for survival of an endangered species , but the knowledge did little to modify his response ; apart from the dogs ' home where he 'd once been bought a sick puppy , it was one of the saddest places he knew . |
| 6 | Erm , being with the S S P C A , I have seen a lot of very sad pictures of animals , but one of the saddest photographs I saw , quite recently was two monkeys , well they 're primates , we are |
| 7 | ‘ One of the women who works for me is one of the toughest women I have ever come across , and most of the women graduates are more than competent . |
| 8 | Had a nice letter from one of the Romanian boys you met very concerned about my job position — he had heard from one of the others who 'd been in London in the summer and saw |
| 9 | Llanelli 's second try , a disarmingly easy one by Steve Bowling on the blind side of a scrum-five , was of more modest proportions and if Jeff Bird had kicked more than one of the six chances he had the conclusion would by half-time have been foregone . |
| 10 | You might , for example , inquire after Richard Dunwoody , whose Becher 's Brook fall on the much-fancied Brown Windsor was just one of the six times he hit the ground during the three-day meeting . |
| 11 | Having begun the week convinced that Emily , after her attack on his Nesselrode pudding , was one of the stupidest females he had met , Heinrich had seven days later become quite besotted by her beauty , wit and charm . |
| 12 | You 're one of the stupidest people I know . ’ |
| 13 | As the director of child services , Jim Harding , said : ‘ For abuse to take place in an institution where a child has been sent for protection must be one of the cruellest experiences you can dish out to any human being . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Lang stated : ‘ I 'm not going to start answering specific questions about specific aspects of how one of the individual solutions we may chose will apply until we have reached a conclusion about the right way forward then we can address this issue and debate it fully , but as things stand at present I see no reason to have to change that law . ’ |
| 15 | But my studies go on , Music GCSE is just one of the nine exams I take next May ( 1994 ) , then I would like to do ‘ A ’ -level music , and hopefully , Music at University . |
| 16 | ‘ Probably it 's one of the strange things you pick up , ’ he said , quoting her . |
| 17 | What his masters did n't know was that when Coy had worked in Washington for six years as a junior military attache in the British Embassy , the DDI was one of the young Americans he had befriended . |
| 18 | Pizza is not one of the lowest-calorie dishes you might order , but ounce-for-ounce it can be quite healthy if made with the right ingredients . |
| 19 | Mr Wood commented : ‘ After many months of being in one of the lower positions it is gratifying to see the improved collection which , I hope , will be continued in both the old and new taxes . ’ |
| 20 | she 'll probably be one of the cleverest people you 'll ever meet |
| 21 | However , many of the jockeys described it as one of the roughest races they had ridden in . |
| 22 | Bruce Hutchison has one of the sharpest minds I know , and his role as political reporter and interpreter has not been fully appreciated in Canada or abroad . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've got lots of favourite moments from those days but perhaps the best is the vision of Kenneth Williams singing one of the dirtiest songs I have ever heard to sunbathers on the beach at Rye — which was doubling for the desert in Carry On — Follow That Camel , ’ he recalls . |
| 24 | While the rest of the humans bent down by one of the flat tyres it strolled up to the gate , fiddled the teeth of the pliers on to the padlock , and squeezed . |
| 25 | One of the best resources you can use is a good listener who will allow you to verbalise your doubts and fears aloud and who is capable of listening to you without pressing home their own agenda . |
| 26 | Reviewed last week as the flip to the Maniac Street Preachers ' ‘ Theme From MASH ’ , but here again so that I can say it 's one of the best records I 've heard all year . |
| 27 | Here I go : it 's one of the best records I 've heard all year . |
| 28 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 29 | There again , we had one of the best encouragements we ever had . |
| 30 | Erm DOS Five was one of the best buys I ever made because |