Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling desperate and willing to try anything , Kirsty finally came to see me one day in early spring . |
| 2 | Before I left , I asked if she would come to see me one day . |
| 3 | For instance , Denis Hamilton — a totally fair journalist , but an incorrigible Conservative — came to see me one day to warn me that The Times was prepared to break the newspaper silence that had until then , with the exception of Private Eye , been maintained by all news sources about her two illegitimate children . |
| 4 | Andrea was up to see me one day . |
| 5 | And the maintenance engineer at Ffestiniog , Mr , I know him very well , he came here er like you did downstairs , come to see me one evening . |
| 6 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 7 | I mean , some may affect me one way , the next person they ask , affected another way , so they get two different opinions , do n't they . |
| 8 | After I had produced talks and features for a year or so , Jack Radford asked me one day if I would like to take charge of a music show . |
| 9 | There are various ways of using them one way , to look through which yo , which you have to see the light , you know , otherwise you wo n't see it ! |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll be building them one day , I tell you , ’ he said softly . |
| 11 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
| 12 | Dadda , voyaging day by day farther out on his black sea of depression , made his one contribution to the talk . |
| 13 | You can buy them one day and bring them back the next |
| 14 | His heart keeps attacking him , as mine will attack me one day . |
| 15 | He found me one day , crying my heart out , and because he was the sort of man he was — kind , sympathetic — I told him . |
| 16 | Well I helped you one year |
| 17 | Look , I 'll promise you one thing : I 'll not marry Kitty McKenna , not even if she sends me another tie . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ That depends how you mean ‘ thaw ’ , ’ she conceded coolly , ‘ Frankly I would n't trust him one inch . |
| 19 | You 'll have to meet him one day , Karen , seriously . ’ |
| 20 | She had expected to meet him one day , but never like this . |
| 21 | Her husband found her one day wearing a rose pinned to her gown that was not from his garden , and guessed it was a gift from her lover . |
| 22 | When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet . |
| 23 | ‘ You ought to try it one day . ’ |
| 24 | You may need it one day . ’ |
| 25 | and if you used it one day a week . |
| 26 | And I tried it one night , it was very yummy and very filling . |
| 27 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
| 28 | Send us one brother , then , and we will send you one hundred passengers . |
| 29 | When a neighbour 's dog visited us one day , the other two cats ran away immediately . |
| 30 | Now , Tommy Cooper he never charged us one penny ! |