Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it gave me heart to see one thug get what he deserves . |
| 2 | Me and my mum bought one of those and we had that between us and we bought one of those each for the kids , even though she swindled sweets in her bag , we started taking sweets in the bag and bottles of drink , but that was n't the same they wanted a cartoon cup , so we |
| 3 | It is my intention to add one more possibility to the existing collection in the hope that it may bring this intriguing issue into perhaps a less mystifying perspective . |
| 4 | Just as the film was reaching its climax my firstborn began one of his frequent exercise periods . |
| 5 | My father took one side , perhaps it was the right side and perhaps it was the wrong side . |
| 6 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 7 | My father had one especial hero : William III , King of Great Britain and Ireland and Prince of Orange . |
| 8 | My father became one of his principal retainers ; four years ago he was appointed Constable of the Tower . ’ |
| 9 | I knew Penny Lane and it was , alas , enough Crilly , and when my father came one day and asked what I was looking at , I said Penny Lane and he stood for awhile and looked for awhile , while the roof held its breath it seemed and then he said , after all that standing and all that looking , he said , ‘ You 're right ’ , and hoisted me up upon his shoulders . |
| 10 | ‘ My father has one of his books . ’ |
| 11 | Looking on the positive side , my absence allowed one of Wales ’ exchange referees to get a taste of the international arena both at Murrayfield and Twickenham . |
| 12 | ‘ My firm had one of the loans called in . |
| 13 | As the last concert was held in a field in a howling wind , my grandfather sang one of his favourite Burns songs ; O' aa the Airts the Wind can Blaw . |
| 14 | When I got home my dad took one look at it and said , you look like a bleeding nancy boy . |
| 15 | But whoever it was that made that claim obviously did not have a school day on which he was expected to use MY brain to do one of Mr Kent 's maths tests ! |
| 16 | Re remote control yes , well my son has one of those he has an electric garage door on his house , and a copper frisked him before he went in last season cos he , he 's a younger bloke and er he said what 's this and he pulled it out of his pocket , he said it 's to open my garage door with he said what do you think it is a death ray or something yeah . |
| 17 | I was sitting in my office smoking one of James 's cigarettes — not the best thing , perhaps , for the queasiness I was still feeling , but I hoped it might calm my juddering nerves — when a poked page-boy knocked on my door and said the Old Man wanted to see me in his suite . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , as chance would have it , a few villagers had passed the camp on the previous day ; finding they were friendly , my mother traded one of our two mules for a gallon of hair dye . |
| 19 | " When we lived in Dublin , my mother ran one of the largest brothels in the city . |
| 20 | And then , my mother said one week before and then my mother said , do n't say , do n't say . |
| 21 | For the first year I had a room on campus but I was n't happy there so I returned to Cliff Top , where my mother put one of the caravans at my disposal . |
| 22 | My father was the head waiter at The Savoy , my mother opened one of the first milk bars in Soho , and my grandmother was a vegetable cook at London 's Park Lane Hotel . |
| 23 | From the beginning , the lines of communication between Lady Spencer and her stepchildren were twisted by their inability to understand one another . |
| 24 | It was strange , but the thought of her sister marrying one of those terrible Feltons no longer filled her with abhorrence ; far better that than bring a child into the world that was n't wanted and whom her mother had already thrown off for adoption . |
| 25 | And Audrey , Audrey made me , her mum kept one of the pubs down there did n't she ? |
| 26 | Their response reminds one of Ribbentrop 's description of the Kremlin banquet with Stalin , held to celebrate the Nazi-Soviet Pact in 1939 : ‘ It was just like being with old party comrades . ’ |
| 27 | In 1337 , Edward III of England launched his assault on the French crown and so began the Hundred Years War , in which Champagne became one of the principal battlegrounds . |
| 28 | But their partnership ended one sad day in 1968 , when Clark was inexplicably killed in a Formula Two race at Hockenheim . |
| 29 | She had been studying for her A levels however when , after discovering that she had smuggled a pining and off-his-food spaniel up to her bedroom to sleep one night , her father had put some of her own recent doubts into words . |
| 30 | Its success comes from its determination to do one thing as well as it can . |