Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cropnose bas made you one of her ladies ? |
| 2 | Three defences made him one of Britain 's most successful world champions ever before being dethroned by Wilfred Benitez in 1981 ( in a fight for which his purse was 400,000 dollars ) yet , curiously , he stayed at his terraced house in Stoke Newington , London . |
| 3 | Free from injury and in the mood , his vast array of skills make him one of the most feared attackers in the modern game . |
| 4 | His wife 's share in the partition of the vast Gloucester estates made him one of the leading territorial magnates and led to his being summoned to Parliament from November 1317 . |
| 5 | ‘ Your eyes and your lips tell me one thing ; your mind , your voice , your hands protest … |
| 6 | However , the judges awarded it one of the fifth prizes for a War Department design . |
| 7 | Agrippina contains all the right elements to make it one of Handel 's most popular stage works . |
| 8 | I stand in the queue for one of the new-fangled ticket machines clutching my one pound coin , but when it 's my turn , the dot matrix display has changed suddenly from CHANGE GIVEN to EXACT MONEY ONLY . |
| 9 | And one of the servants takes his one talent and he uses it and he works very hard with it and he buys erm raw goods and he makes things and he he a makes his one talent up into ten . |
| 10 | Lori sent him one of her most seductive smiles that made Paige long to warn her to be careful . |
| 11 | The PCP fell from 34 at dissolution ( 38 in the 1986 elections ) to 10 seats , and the Liberals retained their one seat . |
| 12 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |
| 13 | From nose-tip to tail the plane is packed with scientific instruments making it one of the world 's most sophisticated flying laboratories . |
| 14 | An odd aspect of the mountain is that although its relative isolation from other hills makes it one of the most prominent peaks to pick out from other far distant tops , the views are rather more limited than one might expect . |
| 15 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 16 | The wide availability of Cervelat in supermarkets and delicatessens makes it one of the most popular of charcuterie products and one that will not offend even the most conservative of palates . |
| 17 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 18 | Traditional ‘ rational ’ rectilinear layouts and crisp but unobtrusive photographs radiate what one appreciative commentator described as ‘ class and cool ’ . |
| 19 | COLON Put a colon ( : ) between two complete clauses to make them one larger sentence : The difference between Pip and the other characters appears again when we see how people deal with this : Pip continues to show Estella that he still wants her , never giving up . |