Example sentences of "was one [prep] [pos pn] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE IRA murdered a man it said was one of its former members yesterday and claimed he was a police informer . |
| 2 | The moment of asking was one of their few times of agreement and understanding . |
| 3 | It was one of her many advantages that as a professional civil servant herself she understood the constraints of his career . |
| 4 | I was sure the triptych mirror was one of her own treasures and I opened it carefully to see myself as I brushed my hair and applied a quick dab of lipstick , the red paint which marked me as a Westerner as surely as my blue eyes and blondish hair . |
| 5 | It was one of her own designs , but whether she would ever have worn it , if it had n't been for the interfering Roman Wyatt , she did n't know . |
| 6 | Added manager Ian Branfoot : ‘ David was annoyed because it was one of our own fans wasting our time . |
| 7 | It was one of his few boasts that he had never taken an academic examination in his life . |
| 8 | Owen had had the house cleared and the servant who let Sesostris in was one of his own men . |
| 9 | This would be especially so if his partner was one of his several sons . |