Example sentences of "[prep] i one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition . |
| 3 | He designed that look for Susan Foreman , and indeed arranged to open his shop specially for me one evening so I could be ready for the production day next morning . |
| 4 | ( The little road going off to the left here , towards Host a , I certainly do n't advise ; it scared the wits out of me one afternoon , so steep , narrow and broken was it ) . |
| 5 | I love the Christmas services , but I did n't argue with him because I know he means to get rid of me one way or another . |
| 6 | ‘ Listen boy , ’ he said , addressing the son and ignoring Matilda , ‘ seeing as you 'll be going into this business with me one day , you 've got to know how to add up the profits you make at the end of each day . |
| 7 | Well the the or residual element er if you take out the I have n't got this figure actually to in this little table I 've got here but if you bear with me one moment . |
| 8 | ‘ So tell me , in the closet with me one moment , out for dinner with another man the next . |
| 9 | The reality of this ignorance was brought home to me one lunchtime when a fellow patient , learning of my condition , asked with a look of horror whether I thought he had cancer . |
| 10 | That seems to me one way of dealing with inquiries about telephone numbers . |
| 11 | ‘ It does n't matter to me one way or the other . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's not a man or woman here who does n't know what happened to me one night ten years ago ! |
| 13 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
| 14 | ‘ Someone will have to explain this game to me one day , ’ I said , mournfully . |
| 15 | It was my philosophy professor , a native of the Antilles , who recalled the fact to me one day : ‘ Whenever you hear anyone abuse the Jews , pay attention because he is talking about you ’ . |
| 16 | I had a young fellow come up to me one day — he had eighteen months ' service . |
| 17 | Superintendent said to me one day , ‘ You do n't like this fellow very well . ’ |
| 18 | My long-suffering owl chauffeur said to me one day while he was yet again driving me to some venue I was going to give a talk at , ‘ You and that bird are costing me a bloody fortune ! ’ |
| 19 | She came to me one day and asked me if I would stand for the council , which I did . |
| 20 | Well , there were n't so many old people then when we came here we were classed as one of the oldest people because er they were all very young people and you were talking about Dame Leah Manning and she came to me one day and she said we 're going to have a problem on the town because it 's a very young town . |
| 21 | ‘ Tell me more about your country , ’ he said to me one day . |
| 22 | ‘ What are we going to do , Toby ? ’ he said to me one day . |
| 23 | ‘ If you want to do something useful , ’ my mother said to me one day , ‘ you can help me propagate the cactuses . ’ |
| 24 | M. Would you read one to me one day ? |
| 25 | The American captain of a supply ship was chatting to me one day and asked me where we were based . |
| 26 | Perhaps Mr Woolf had overheard that classic remark by a member of the public who said to me one day when we were negotiating the locks of the Caledonian canal in Venturous , " I did n't know we had Inland Revenue Cutters . " |
| 27 | Three a year which was very nice and er oh well whilst I was there , you see , erm I landed up in , in Peel because I was going on a and she said to me one day this Miss er what are you doing today ? |
| 28 | and I worked for the council so he spoke to me one day and he said , Will you cut the roads with a tractor and a mower . |
| 29 | They did that to me one day . |
| 30 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |