Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pron] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 2 | I agree with Kev — I reckon 3–1 is a good bet for tomorrow.But one word of warning … years of painful experience has taught me one golden rule in football betting — NEVER back your own team — there 's nothing more guaranteed to jinx them . |
| 3 | Colonel Jensen has given us one case of fossils and promises us more . |
| 4 | Elaine Moss , in her short article ‘ The ‘ Peppermint ’ lesson' ( 1986 ) has given us one of the best accounts of the happy marriage of the right reader with the right book . |
| 5 | And finally , Oxfordshire waterskier Shelley Nutt 's sparkling talent to twist and turn has earned her one of the sport 's top honours . |
| 6 | This quote from Jean Aurenche , who co-scripted Tavernier 's first three features , identifies the driving force which informs all the director 's work , and has made him one of the leading European directors today . |
| 7 | His discipline , his dedication , and his pursuit of excellence may not have made him the most charismatic of world class players , but it has made him one of the most respected . |
| 8 | McAvennie 's peroxide reign has made him one of the most recognisable anti-heroes in Scottish football . |
| 9 | His amusing analysis of human frailty has made him one of the folk world 's more unlikely heroes — a bard who takes the knocks but never shows the bruising . |
| 10 | It was the launching pad for a media career that has made her one of the highest paid people on British TV . |
| 11 | The National Health has told us one and a half percent if we want an extra day 's holiday , if we want an extra day 's holiday , then we would have to take three days , we could take two , that would leave us with half a percent . |
| 12 | Erm we 've got we had two hundred and pounds fifteen pence on deposit which has raised us one pound ten pence interest over the year , leaving us at two hundred and twenty one pounds twenty five pence . |
| 13 | Since its inception in 1984 the Middlesbrough 10k Road Race and Fun Run has proved itself one of the premier events of its kind in the North-East . |
| 14 | The area cost adjustment which the er government takes out of the total S S A's of some two hundred million has gone to the south-east , I hope none goes to Westminster , and that has cost us one point three million . |
| 15 | He had returned her stare and she 'd sent him one of her brilliant , flashing smiles , but his features had remained completely impassive . |
| 16 | ‘ I could have done you one of those . ’ |
| 17 | This would indeed have made it one of the greatest empires in Europe . |
| 18 | I 'd have told you one day . |
| 19 | Er had they got their way every time we put a cheque in or took one out or moved money from one account to another it would have cost us eighty pence , which meant that had anybody paid their their fees to the er and made the cheque payable to us directly , we would have had to bank that cheque and then reissue another cheque er to the appropriate department and that would have cost us one pound sixty , for which we 'd have got nothing . |
| 20 | If he was right , then Lorton 's ingenuity might well have taken him one step further . |
| 21 | If she spoke , if once there were the least word , the least crack or fissure , upon which tears and screams could follow , she would have lost her one advantage , her source of ordinary viable life , and would be utterly undone and destroyed . |
| 22 | Yet he could not believe that the KGB could have discovered his one small secret . |
| 23 | She was reported as saying that the trial had taught her one important lesson as a barrister — how the victim feels — and called for changes in the law which would give greater protection to victims . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've given you one answer . |
| 25 | The South Africans were asking the umpires in the West Indies whether they had received their one for the over . |
| 26 | Ellen had given me one of her pitying looks . |
| 27 | They had given him one written statement . |
| 28 | At the next race it was entrusted to Jo Bonnier , a likeable Swede who had won his one and only grand prix 10 years before . |
| 29 | Rostovtsev had committed what one enthusiastic reformer called " a grave political mistake " . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've forgotten which one of you is Carrie and which one is Ginnie . ’ |