Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate bent to give her one last kiss . |
| 2 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 3 | Feeling desperate and willing to try anything , Kirsty finally came to see me one day in early spring . |
| 4 | For instance , Denis Hamilton — a totally fair journalist , but an incorrigible Conservative — came to see me one day to warn me that The Times was prepared to break the newspaper silence that had until then , with the exception of Private Eye , been maintained by all news sources about her two illegitimate children . |
| 5 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 6 | He had returned her stare and she 'd sent him one of her brilliant , flashing smiles , but his features had remained completely impassive . |
| 7 | He followed Carla into the kitchen and produced the coins for her to see , then started to flip them one by one . |
| 8 | Carlie decided to give him one more chance . |
| 9 | On behalf of his wife , Sergeant Troy decided to have it one evening at the end of August , in the great barn . |
| 10 | He looked rather pleased with himself so I decided to ask him one more question : ‘ What do we get from chickens ? ’ |
| 11 | I undertook to make it one of the priorities of our presidency of the European Community later this year to carry through an improved trade and co-operation agreement with Russia . |
| 12 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 13 | In the coils adjacent to his wrists he located the python 's cloaca and managed to give it one hell of a goosing . |
| 14 | However , I managed to prise my one good eye open . |
| 15 | I did touch them one time you see but of course there was nothing doing he wan me ! |
| 16 | She was reported as saying that the trial had taught her one important lesson as a barrister — how the victim feels — and called for changes in the law which would give greater protection to victims . |
| 17 | The South Africans were asking the umpires in the West Indies whether they had received their one for the over . |
| 18 | Ellen had given me one of her pitying looks . |
| 19 | They had given him one written statement . |
| 20 | At the next race it was entrusted to Jo Bonnier , a likeable Swede who had won his one and only grand prix 10 years before . |
| 21 | Rostovtsev had committed what one enthusiastic reformer called " a grave political mistake " . |
| 22 | After thoroughly investigating their backgrounds and their political beliefs , he had approached them one by one . |
| 23 | The Hatchet had not lost those qualities which had made him one of the most respected , and feared , members of the underworld . |
| 24 | It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own . |
| 25 | Brian Harley had made his one mistake at the sixteenth by finding both a fairway bunker and one by the green and was still standing at four under . |
| 26 | On being appointed prime minister in March 1992 , he had made it one of his priorities to ‘ lance the abscess of corruption ’ . |
| 27 | It was run by two balding , bespectacled men in their late thirties , neither of whom was called Largo , whose extensive knowledge of antiques had made it one of the most popular and profitable shops of its kind in the whole canton . |
| 28 | In Alexandria armies of monks sacked the Serapeum , the great temple to Osiris , and destroyed the library which had made it one of the world 's chief centres of learning . |
| 29 | When they had walked back to the car , his father had offered him one of the fish . |
| 30 | For some time he had thought her one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen . |