Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , his letter was criticized for what one Gaullist called its " artificial optimism " . |
| 2 | Paul Hentzner , a German traveller , has described the scene in the Presence Chamber as the Queen passed through it one Sunday on her way to chapel . |
| 3 | A group of vengeful noblemen invited him to dine with them one evening , served him poisoned food and wine and then set about murdering him — a process that was anything but straightforward . |
| 4 | I bumped into her one evening when I was out fetching Dad twopenn'orth of twist . |
| 5 | But , ’ said Terry darkly , leaning towards me , ‘ this is something you should know , if you 're lucky enough to work with him one day . ’ |
| 6 | Milan Station , designed in what one critic called ‘ a megalomaniac delirium ’ , remains a monument to the ambitious and grandiose aspirations of Italian Fascism . |
| 7 | If , however , a society is so divided that it contains within itself one or more permanent minorities , who know that on the issues that matter most to them they can never hope to get their way , precisely because of the operation of the majority principle , then that principle ceases to be adequate . |
| 8 | I HAVE recently had an electric card meter installed in my one bedroom flat , as I prefer to pay as I use knowing how unwelcome bills can be . |
| 9 | As you can see , if you are in some far away place in your One Ten County and you damage the front diff , you can fit one from a dead Rangy or perhaps P5 coupe left behind by the diplomatic service in the 1960s . |
| 10 | It may be possible to delete this provision if the Purchaser can be satisfied that it has had all the Business 's contracts disclosed to it one way or another . |
| 11 | In 1798 he exhibited No. 447 , ‘ Derwent Water from Castle Rigg ’ , and in 1801 , No. 649 , ‘ View from Kirby Lonsdale Churchyard Westmorland ’ , but this appears to be the last entry , probably because once he had moved to Ambleside he concentrated on his one man shows in the area . |
| 12 | A bleak thought that occurred to him one night , crossing the Hungerford Bridge on the way back from a check of Cardboard City . |
| 13 | Perhaps she would think of him one day with less ill-will than now , but not for very long at a time ; not obsessively , not like this . |
| 14 | There is much still to be done for our one profession . |
| 15 | I will , I 'll do for you one of these days . |
| 16 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 17 | With a savage cry he drove into her one last time and felt the shockwaves pulse through him , draining all sensation and leaving a blessed numbness in which there was no more pain … |
| 18 | In relation to Jesus , popular tradition has imposed upon him one of the oldest and most archetypal of functions — that of the eternal adversary , the dark opposite , the embodiment of all the vices and iniquities that the hero is not . |
| 19 | Finally , infuriated by her own weakness where Adam was concerned , she had turned on him one evening in the club , shaking his hand from her hair as though scorched by his touch . |
| 20 | ‘ It does n't matter to me one way or the other . |
| 21 | When they reached her floor eventually , she bade him a perfunctory farewell and stepped out of the lift with a feeling of release , hurrying towards her apartment , heart and hormones defeating any intention of greeting Luke 's arrival as coolly as if it did n't matter to her one way or the other . |
| 22 | Constance Cummings , with her bossy graciousness , infuses some air into the play , as in her dismissal of the fact that her new governess has no references : ‘ I never listen to what one woman says about another . ’ |
| 23 | The denotational semantics of unc map each process into a domain with a partial order according to which one process is greater than another if it is better defined , or more predictable . |
| 24 | 'Cos I says to her one day , well why do n't you ask yer , your relation , if he 'll er , if he 'll give yer a job . |
| 25 | The solution came to her one evening when Nahum commented on her excessive pallor . |
| 26 | They came to her one by one : Brendan , Shane , Rhett , Niall and Roger , and she was hugged and kissed by each in turn , so that her cheeks burned from the scrubbing of their coarse beards . |
| 27 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |
| 28 | Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town . |
| 29 | I wanted to meet Peruvians and speak to them one to one ; and in Cuzco I encountered only the persistence of hawkers , the sullen attention of displaced campesinos , a world that turned itself or me into shadows . |
| 30 | You must have skidded over it one way and then it tipped back and put up this sort of tooth , like a ratchet , look . ’ |