Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling desperate and willing to try anything , Kirsty finally came to see me one day in early spring . |
| 2 | Before I left , I asked if she would come to see me one day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Andrea was up to see me one day . |
| 5 | And the maintenance engineer at Ffestiniog , Mr , I know him very well , he came here er like you did downstairs , come to see me one evening . |
| 6 | She said no I think I 'll go home I 'll be alright , so I took her back home about eleven and erm erm I kept phoning her every hour on the hour just to make sure she 's alright , then I said I want you just to promise me one thing you 're not do anything silly , I 'm here , I do n't care what it takes , I 'm here , so she said alright then , so I said it 'll break mum 's heart it 'll break dad 's heart , |
| 7 | You 'll have to meet him one day , Karen , seriously . ’ |
| 8 | She had expected to meet him one day , but never like this . |
| 9 | ‘ You ought to try it one day . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ In order to answer that , I need you to answer me one question … ’ |
| 11 | In this way she can judge when some children are ready to join a group game , enabling her to present them with some small problem that will help to lead them one step further in their mathematical thinking . |
| 12 | I think they used to overlap them one edge did n't they ? |
| 13 | and has only offered to buy me one beer so far . |
| 14 | There are of course exceptions of those who are neither councillors nor magistrates er and are prepared to do these jobs , but there are n't very many in relation to er the numbers of people that would be required for this sort of task and there are many other activities for which there are required , like school governors who like helping on various health bodies and er they have n't got the time to do them all , and if they have , they probably are n't suitable , because I have to my Lords that a lord of people who volunteer for these sorts of tasks and I have experience of them are n't people that locally we would like to have sitting on these various bodies and we have to discourage them one way and another . |
| 15 | Kathy Rooney had to leave me one night when we were dining at the Kensington Hilton , so she took me to the porter to arrange for him to take me upstairs to my room when I was ready . |
| 16 | He never decides to leave me one thing . |
| 17 | Give them a nasty shock ; a surprise which is going to put you one step ahead before things have even started . |
| 18 | We are going to give you one week 's pay in respect of each couple of years of servi , years ' service . |
| 19 | No , I 've only got to give you one card |
| 20 | Have you got enough change to give her one pound fifty Jack ? |
| 21 | I wanted to do it one way , he thought I should be doing it another . |
| 22 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 23 | I try to leave it one day , a believe me , it 's no more than you 'd die , like . |
| 24 | Lévi-Strauss ' objections to Sartre 's theory of history on the grounds of its ethnocentrism was certainly to the point , demonstrating that one lesson of Sartre 's Herculean attempt to make history truth , and to give it one meaning , was the relation of such history to Western cultural imperialism . |
| 25 | In the coils adjacent to his wrists he located the python 's cloaca and managed to give it one hell of a goosing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I recall going to see him one morning in the mid-70s after a newspaper suggested Liverpool were ready to pay Boro 200,000 for me . |
| 28 | ‘ I went to see him one evening and asked to borrow it . ’ |
| 29 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 30 | David heard about that , went along to see it one day , and that 's how the partnership with Lindsay started . ’ |