Example sentences of "[conj] one [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which that is a good idea cos erm if you get bored with one song or one album you just click it and it goes to that . |
| 2 | They seek a chance to rebuild their lives in safety , hoping that one day they may be able to return home . |
| 3 | If they come from the Berlin orchestra , they need no references , so other orchestras will take them ; though we know that one day they will return to this orchestra . |
| 4 | The other children , my playmates , meant little to me ; so little that one day they all rose from the field and vanished , like angels . |
| 5 | Where we used to see an organ with its automated conductor and maybe a waterfall thrown in for good measure , we now have canned music and disc jockeys aping their favourites from radio or TV and hoping against hope that one day they too may be discovered . |
| 6 | I just feel I have to know certain things and that one day they will be of great use to me in understanding the world . ’ |
| 7 | Let me inscribe these words on this papyrus of a person that I have become and trust , my saviour , that one day they will enlighten me . |
| 8 | The fact that she would return to the same workhouse 10 years later was in itself not untypical ; many genuine helpers in such institutions may have had it in the back of their minds that one day they would become the cared for , rather than the person doing the caring , as old age took its toll . |
| 9 | All the drivers are exciting , and people who are stuck in this pattern of behaviour often have an incentive to stay in it — they feel that one day they will succeed , they will finally be perfect , they will at last please everyone ; they will prove that they can get everything done more quickly than everyone else , and they 'll know that they can undertake anything under the most difficult conditions . |
| 10 | In it , he entrusted his ‘ six sons ’ to the protection of his ‘ most celebrated and very dear friend ’ , adding that they were the products of long and laborious labour , but that he was encouraged by the hope that one day they would prove a source of consolation . |
| 11 | But nobody told the fish over millions of years of evolution that one day they would be prized for their decorative/educational/food value and put in overcrowded conditions ( relatively speaking ) in glass tanks/bowls , or ponds . |
| 12 | ‘ I used to dream that one day they would call out for a 10-year-old from the audience to give them a hand . |
| 13 | Bardul uses this chamber to store an amazing range of things which he has picked up over the years in the hope that one day they might be useful . |
| 14 | In the latter , ‘ in criticism , proposal and debate , the leading members of the opposition are … guided by their own previous experience in the various ministries and their expectation that one day they themselves may have to administer the policies now under debate . ’ |
| 15 | The commitment which the new proprietors are bringing to the enormous task of totally renovating and modernizing Low Birk Hatt is patently obvious For years they have denied themselves many of the luxuries they would otherwise have been easily able to afford because they both knew that one day they would need the capital to spend on the kind of home they both dreamed about . |
| 16 | But their real hope is that one day they 'll be able to take them home . |
| 17 | The Nairacs , now in their eighties , declined to comment , but they 're said to be hopeful that one day they WILL be able to give their son a proper burial . |
| 18 | The hardest lesson learned from such an exercise is that the emergency services from Oxfordshire , Gloucestershire and Warwickshire believe that one day they will combione again , to deal with the real thing … what emergency planners call the nightmare scenario . |
| 19 | Like lots of other music mad teeangers Sam , Jim and Ben Turner get together after school , and dream that one day they 'll be famous and play in a rock band . |
| 20 | But still , we did have several holidays together and I had assumed that one day we would get married . |
| 21 | We did n't mix — the Forces and the students — as we really had nothing in common , but it was a reassurance to see them going about their daily business , as an indication that one day we would all be able to revert to peacetime pursuits . |
| 22 | I said that one day we should be back , and that in the meantime our affection for the people of Burma would not fail . |
| 23 | It may be that one day we shall discover a complete unified theory that predicts them all , but it is also possible that some or all of them vary from universe to universe or within a single universe . |
| 24 | And Prodrive reckon that one day we might all be driving around with semi-automatic gear boxes just like Colin McRae … on second thoughts , perhaps not just like Colin McRae . |
| 25 | ‘ It is possible that one day we will return . ’ |
| 26 | I did n't mind this ; I was happy just to be there , hoping that one day she would give me some of the pretty wool to make something for myself but she never did . |
| 27 | Carrie was very pleased to see the change in her father now that he had settled into his new job , but she still fretted over her parents , and she had not forgotten her vow that one day she would have enough money to buy them a decent house to live in . |
| 28 | As her best friend , Carolyn Bartholomew observes of the woman she has known since they were schoolgirls : ‘ She is not a happy person but she once was and it is my dearest hope that one day she will find the happiness she truly deserves . ’ |
| 29 | If anyone had told her then that one day she would join the royal family she would have run a mile . |
| 30 | The Prince was deadly serious , emphasizing the earnestness of his proposal by reminding her that one day she would be queen . |