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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] one [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	There is a compensation scheme and the laibon wishes me to drive one of his sons fifty miles to a small town to collect the papers .
2	Perhaps you might even allow me to borrow one of your people as a guide around the city .
3	Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot .
4	You would n't catch me using one of them .
5	Somebody took me to see one of their pubs in Liverpool it was wonderful !
6	I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally .
7	I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) .
8	In December 1979 I became one of two lesbians and sixty-five gay men providing a twenty-four-hours-a-day information service and helpline for the gay community .
9	And then of course as soon as I started the chemotherapy I became one of them and I started not to notice .
10	I asked one of the Commandos lifting the dead Germans .
11	I asked one of the medics who was unloading the wounded .
12	By now we were amongst a group of riotous children , and I asked one of them if the festival were now over .
13	I asked one of them .
14	And at night I asked one of the young men who was helping us , one who had come with the carters , to help me load the saint on to the wagon , to go to Ramsey to the aid and succour of our misused house .
15	Because I know I asked one of my friends
16	Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died .
17	And the corridor down and kitch two or three kitchens that were we we went er I asked one of th the attendants I got a I grabbed the another chap with me we we 'd come across together .
18	I asked one of they did n't I ?
19	Later , I applied one of my favourite PD utilities called Hdtest to mark all bad sectors , but most of the disk space used by that directory was recovered .
20	For one thing , I doubled one of the songs using a Gibson Chet Atkins model .
21	Do I want one of them ?
22	‘ Every time I sell one of those things I 'm committing a crime against humanity , ’ he had told him .
23	At tea I made one of the mistakes of my life .
24	" In the year 1889 " , he wrote forty years later , " I made one of the fatal mistakes of my life .
25	I MADE one of my rare visits to town this week and I wish I had not .
26	‘ I regret one of my operatives was a little heavy-handed at your place , Quincx , ’ she continued .
27	One I mean one of the reason 's that we 've actually changed these round and and do n't think it 's right is because the has a there 's been a cut cut cost cutting exercise within the building .
28	I 've done that I mean one of the sad things about the stage door club is due to the design of the building you 've really got to be looking to go there .
29	Also , I mean one of the things that the Council is considering doing , I mean this interest , I know that other people from around this area come into Harlow , one of the things that the Council 's thinking about is erm , is charging , or has debated , charging different rates for people who are coming in than , than those who live here .
30	I mean one of getting round that is erm for Derek and I to transcribe them because then it 's fairly easy for me to turn round and say Listen to this .