Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb infin] one [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I was watching a card trick one of the soldiers was showing me and did not look up until the cart had almost passed the window .
2 Does daddy have one of these ?
3 One can speculate that this boy might some day join one of the rebellious students who fight the establishment in an astonishingly infantile way , expecting at the same time not to be punished and to be granted full amnesty for their transgressions , just as a small child would expect from an indulgent parent .
4 The years 1921–2 did in fact cover one of the worst periods in the economic fortunes of the Smolensk guberniia .
5 Not only does the house contain one of the most interesting ‘ collections of collections ’ , but it is surrounded by the first pleasure garden to be run entirely organically in the National Trust .
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