Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | across in swindon yesterday eight hundred of the country 's fittest athletes were competing in one of the summer 's toughest events … the two twenty triathlon … a fifty mile race of endurance |
| 2 | But his views were dismaying to one of the readers of his discourses , the poet and artist William Blake . |
| 3 | In 1975 , two nature lovers were boating on one of the bay 's rivers . |
| 4 | The decision followed months of intense lobbying fuelled by reports that black African countries were pressing for one of their candidates , notably the former Finance Minister of Zimbabwe , Bernard Chidzero , as the next UN Secretary-General . |
| 5 | Erm , I remember years ago , well , well , say months ago , erm , one of the local estate agents were writing in one of the property news I think it was or the Advertiser , saying now is the time to buy , erm , whereas twelve months ago , now 's the time to buy because they |
| 6 | Okay well I know I know you said that you were looking at one or two other things and quite honestly I would expect you to be . |
| 7 | I live in France now , and I 'm married to a Frenchman , but my introduction to drama was through an amateur dramatic society in Stanmore , where we were living at one time . |
| 8 | 5–8 Field grown new potatoes were selling at one shilling per stone of 14 lbs , but owing to the abundance of grass there were few cattle at the Bridgend July market . |
| 9 | Along its high white granite walls , hundreds of funeral wreaths were coalescing into one great hanging garden of remembrance . |
| 10 | The first phase was a consolidation of the central panel 's fourteen planks which were separating from one another . |
| 11 | Well it makes me very bitter because the , this is the sort of thing that John and I we were going over one thing after the other . |
| 12 | I were going through one of them a week ! |
| 13 | The three of them were going on one of their rare holidays abroad . |
| 14 | However , some of the provisions did vary according to whether the individuals were moving from one or other of the areas . |
| 15 | I remember the brief darkness at midnight when the arc lamps lit the decks ; the interminable hours of daylight ; the unceasing work with men too tired to talk ; the hurried meals ; the luxury of sleep when we were moving from one fishing ground to another . |
| 16 | We filmed on the train to London and I was told at one stage that we were proceeding at one hundred miles an hour . |
| 17 | No one then had time to utter what he dreaded ; but afterwards , though those about the king held their peace doggedly , and spoke only of phenomenally bad weather against which no man could guard , in the ranks men were saying to one another that this was no natural storm , that there had never been known so strange and violent a tempest , that it was sent out of malice against them , either by Owen himself , or by those stiff-necked Franciscans of Llanfaes whose house the king had burned , and who were allies of Owen and the devil to the last man . |
| 18 | AT the beginning of the 1980s passengers experienced great variances of comfort and style on InterCity and cross-country trains mainly according to whether they were travelling in one of the three basic designs that made up most of the fleet , one each from the fifties , sixties and seventies . |
| 19 | In September the log-jam thwarting the ‘ mighty stream ’ gave way : throughout that month London publishers of the book were furnishing to one distribution house alone some 10,000 copies a day . |
| 20 | On one occasion the police were chasing after one such reckless driver when he shouted ‘ Do n't shoot , I 'm only a Joy Rider ’ . |
| 21 | Two men were ploughing on one of the hills , and though they escaped with their lives , their ploughs were destroyed and three of their horses struck dead . |
| 22 | Go on with your maps for a minute she said to the second form who were glancing at one another in astonishment as they heard the noise from the first form room . |
| 23 | And then the drawbridge was falling , with a clanking and a whirring of machinery and the light was pouring into the courtyard and the Gnomes were cheering and the giants were nodding to one another , and there was nothing for it but to ride away with Snodgrass , with Balor loping along at their side , with Fenella behind in the hands of the Gruagach . |
| 24 | Mrs Fletcher and a neighbour were standing outside one with a huge sunflower growing in front of it . |
| 25 | John was careful , but as a singer I felt with him as I were standing on one leg after my time with Walter . |
| 26 | They were falling over one another to get on the winning side . ’ |
| 27 | I thought we were talking about one man , Philippe Maurin ? ’ |
| 28 | Mm some people decided they were going to work as a , as a group on their table , to gather information and when you were doing the tallies last week , you helped each other did n't you , some of you helped , you were talking to one another to help make sure that you got the right number of tallies , if you worked with some other people to get the survey questions and do the tallies , sign it , if you did everything on your own , leave it blank is anyone not sure what to do there ? |
| 29 | The social significance of this ( and one linking it to the theorists we have discussed earlier ) lay in the fact that large numbers of individuals , uprooted from their established communities and families were adapting to one another and to the existing Chicago population . |
| 30 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |