Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] one of " 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 | With one doctor , one nurse made me one of the doctors told me to get up . |
| 3 | Marie read me one of her poems the other day . |
| 4 | Nellie promised me one of her old dresses when she had a new one . |
| 5 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 6 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 7 | But he told me one of my stories was a masterpiece , and that one of my poems would move a stone . |
| 8 | Cor they look I told you one of them did n't have much in ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Miss Harker recoiled from the small spidery apparition , but recovered quickly and granted him one of her smiles . |
| 11 | ‘ Cropnose bas made you one of her ladies ? |
| 12 | To be able to fly one around in a circuit made you one of the top flyers in the world . |
| 13 | I got you one of them pies |
| 14 | Tom handed him one of the two small buff-coloured boxes and they both slung them over their shoulders and set off . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As rapists never go around with dogs , Lydia 's imagination spared her one of its flights . |
| 18 | I got her one of them . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Jonty Rhodes , whose fierce commitment and exuberance in the field made him one of the ‘ stars ’ of the World Cup . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Cranmer 's cheerful nature made him one of the most popular captains on the county circuit . |
| 25 | The answer is that his remarkable methods as batsman , bowler and captain made him one of the great sporting entertainers . |
| 26 | And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Subsequently , continuing on occasion to work in partnership with his brother , he developed a business which made him one of the most successful of such craft-based figures in English history . |
| 29 | His wealth made him one of the principal paymasters of the English Catholic community , and in political circles he was generally seen as the leader of Catholic opinion . |
| 30 | This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers . |