Example sentences of "[vb past] one [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The madrigalist John Wilbye [ q.v. ] dedicated one set of published madrigals to Arabella Stuart [ q.v. ] and the other to Sir Charles Cavendish , the earl 's younger brother , who was himself connected by marriage to the Kytsons , Wilbye 's patrons at Hengrave Hall . |
| 2 | The charges allege that on various occasions over the 14 months to August last year at the home , she assaulted one woman by throwing her from her bed on to a chair then a commode , putting her in a bath against her will and pulling her along a corridor , and of assaulting the second woman in a similar manner by throwing her from her bed on to a wheelchair and then a commode , dragging her across a room and tying her to a chair . |
| 3 | Gino 's chipper in Duke Street , near where she normally boarded her tram after work , charged one penny for a bag of crispy batter , and if you were lucky , there might be a nice piece of fish , or a stray lump of white pudding hiding among the golden , greasy flakes . |
| 4 | Cash only contributed one song to the second Highwaymen album , Highwayman 2 , a number called Songs that Make a Difference . |
| 5 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 6 | Tim tried one night of Soho strip clubs , but the smell of smoke and the avid faces of the watchers who all seemed much older than himself depressed him , and he left without trying any of phone numbers which annoyed the clerk . |
| 7 | I mean if we tried one bag of that for a fiver . |
| 8 | They want the flightpath moved one mile to the west . |
| 9 | Nathan moved one shoulder in a semi-shrug . |
| 10 | Then he subsequently moved one person from the ground floor onto the first floor , which meant that he did require a fire certificate . |
| 11 | In the growing queue for the buffet on the Cheshire Cheese , the passengers moved one place nearer the long-awaited ham and tomato sandwich in stony silence . |
| 12 | Philip cast one glance at him , observed the signs , and thought better of making any demands on him . |
| 13 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 14 | A tear fell and splashed uselessly on to the pillow , and she clumsily drew one arm over her eyes . |
| 15 | Crusty bread and thick , creamy butter , a huge crisp salad , masses of succulent cold chicken ; there was wine in the fridge too , as well as rows of the stuff in the extensive wine racks that lined one wall of the kitchen . |
| 16 | She built one palace in Parma and another , a sort of miniature Versailles , not far from the Po at Colorno , which later became a lunatic asylum . |
| 17 | The Vote reported one incident of child assault in Surrey , where a man was sentenced to only four months hard labour . |
| 18 | The association reported one item of progress , welcoming the recent closure order for the eastern end of Fairview Road . |
| 19 | The judge described one defendent as the ringleader , another as a professional hitman , and the third as a repellent henchman . |
| 20 | He described One journey to the source of the James River in 1738 in a letter to Collinson , ‘ … over and between the mountains in many very crooked turnings and windings ; in which I travelled 1,100 miles in five weeks , having rested but one day in all that time … |
| 21 | There was a twinning arrangement with a local employer which involved one member of staff and a limited number of students . |
| 22 | There followed a short lull , but from 1620 onwards a succession of attacks by small formations of S.79s commenced but all were successfully beaten off , mainly by the intense gunfire of the ships , although Yellow Section of 808 Squadron , two Fulmars flown by Lt. A.T.J. Kindersley and Lt. Hay , R.M. , caught one bomber at 1710 and claimed it shot down . |
| 23 | But Gabriel caught one glimpse of milky-white eyes that looked stone blind . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're staying ! ’ shouted one man in the crowd that greeted the Soviet leader when he laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame . |
| 25 | Thus , follow up of patients with low grade dysplasia found one cancer in 223 patient years . |
| 26 | Always short of money , Pound in the twenties found one outlet after another closed to him and had great difficulty making ends meet . |
| 27 | We found one part of the delivery bed in the labour ward but the other part turned up in the children 's ward . |
| 28 | For example , Radford ( 1970 ) in a study of two contrasting Worcestershire villages found one village with an established pattern of stratification , but in the other village with a strong newcomer element , she found an increasingly mobile and polarized society . |
| 29 | She found one book with single words left unruled . |
| 30 | Thumbed through some papers that they have got , in front of the shop , and found one set of erm , papers from nineteen thirty-six concerned the French National Anthem , and I thought that was a second amazing coincidence , er , and so I had to buy myself that that set of papers for about a pound . |