Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner . |
| 2 | She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one . |
| 3 | With one doctor , one nurse made me one of the doctors told me to get up . |
| 4 | Then Isabel read them one by one . |
| 5 | Marie read me one of her poems the other day . |
| 6 | Nellie promised me one of her old dresses when she had a new one . |
| 7 | So I drew them one by one — — Skippetty Rabbit , his wife Gillian , Brownie the Bear , Prowler the Wolf , Fido the Pup , Sly Fox , Piney Cone the Pine Marten , Longtail and Short Tail the Mice , and Bill Mouse with his wife Sue . |
| 8 | They approached me one by one with invitations : some drinks over a game of cards ; a night out at the theatre … |
| 9 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 10 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 11 | But he told me one of my stories was a masterpiece , and that one of my poems would move a stone . |
| 12 | Cor they look I told you one of them did n't have much in ! |
| 13 | A security man working at the centre said the injured man told him one of the gunmen put a sub-machine gun to his head , but that it had failed to go off . |
| 14 | Miss Harker recoiled from the small spidery apparition , but recovered quickly and granted him one of her smiles . |
| 15 | ‘ Cropnose bas made you one of her ladies ? |
| 16 | To be able to fly one around in a circuit made you one of the top flyers in the world . |
| 17 | I got you one of them pies |
| 18 | She took out little leather boxes and opened them one by one . |
| 19 | Tom handed him one of the two small buff-coloured boxes and they both slung them over their shoulders and set off . |
| 20 | Quite out of the blue her sense of the ridiculous erupted ; the parallel he 'd drawn appealed to her , and she found herself actually laughing as she handed him one of the bowls . |
| 21 | As he handed her one of the glasses their eyes met briefly , and it occurred to Lisa , for just a fleeting instant , that he was feeling almost as nervous as she was . |
| 22 | As rapists never go around with dogs , Lydia 's imagination spared her one of its flights . |
| 23 | The cantor , the rabbi , the chosen laymen stood before the open Ark , cradling the Torah scrolls , which looked like stiff-necked royal children , and returned them one by one to their golden stall . |
| 24 | I examined them one by one — drinks , thermometer , stethoscope , blood-pressure machine , plaster cut-down setting , emergency transfusion setting in a sealed tin , emergency tracheotomy setting in another , emergency hypodermic setting on the final sterile-towel-covered tray . |
| 25 | There was a whole platoon of black-and-whites on our tail at the outset , but we lost them one by one . |
| 26 | I got her one of them . |
| 27 | The durable li'l lady from Nashville who began her recording career when she was just 11 years old proved age had not mellowed her as she belted out the songs of the Fifties and Sixties which made her one of the best selling female vocalists of all time . |
| 28 | John Henry was retired in July 1985 after a racing career over eight seasons which made him one of the most popular horses ever to run in the USA . |
| 29 | Jonty Rhodes , whose fierce commitment and exuberance in the field made him one of the ‘ stars ’ of the World Cup . |
| 30 | All these factors have some role in Emerson 's make-up , but it is that old Paulista go-ahead mentality that made him one of the most disciplined , most consistent and , in his prime , ablest of drivers . |