Example sentences of "[prep] one [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 2 | ‘ Men were rescued after one of the rafts collided with a landing stage and they received immediate support from two of our support vessels . |
| 3 | Her daughter is even named after one of the horses she 'd nursed there . |
| 4 | There are a number of different groupings , which may be included under the rubric of social movement : neighbourhood councils , which include the gamut of barrio and community organisations aimed at solving problems of urban facilities and also those that are concerned with living standards , particularly in the form of rising prices of food , transport and other necessities ; women 's movements , which have become particularly prominant in Grenada and Nicaragua , but which also exist in more localised forms in other countries ; human rights groups , which have become so well-known on a national scale in Argentina , but are also active at neighbourhood level as for example in São Paulo , where one was formed in 1978 in the barrio of São Miguel after one of the inhabitants was victimised by police brutality ( Singer 1982 ) ; CEBs , as described in Chapter 4 , are spreading now throughout the continent ; regional movements have emerged in countries where the interests of one region have been subordinated to those of other areas as in Peru ; and political protest groups , which in the extreme become guerrilla groups , such as Sendero Luminoso in Peru . |
| 5 | They left Russia after one of the pogroms . |
| 6 | Bird Alighting ( Peopeo Tholekt ) rode out to parley , but returned in consternation after one of the civilians repeatedly jabbed a rifle into his ribs . |
| 7 | So I made a collage that said something about that day and their plight , and named it after one of the banners they were carrying . ’ |
| 8 | So I made a collage that said something about that day and their plight , and named it after one of the banners they were carrying . ’ |
| 9 | The incident had led to the dismissal of Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III in June , after one of the victims of the affair , Navy Lt. Paula Coughlin , had publicly described the ordeal experienced by herself and at least 25 of her female colleagues at the hands of drunken male aviators . |
| 10 | A bomb disposal squad was called to the main postal sorting office in the French port of Le Havre after one of the postmen on duty detected a sinister ticking inside a parcel he was handling . |
| 11 | THE MOST important Khmer and Thai sculptures were withdrawn from Sotheby 's major sale of Asian art yesterday after one of the pieces was found to be a fake . |
| 12 | To take part , students have to join a society called the ‘ Pimlico Connection ’ ( after one of the schools in the scheme ) , and go through a day of ‘ orientation ’ to the kind of situations they will face in the classrooms . |
| 13 | She should be called after one of the saints . " |
| 14 | A theatrical gentleman approached me after one of the performances , said he was impressed by my singing , and that he could obtain a part for me with the Schikenader Company in Vienna . |
| 15 | Local league officials have stepped in after one of the men 's teams they beat protested : ‘ We were indecently assaulted . ’ |
| 16 | The Blood Banner Society , the shadowy Japanese ultra-nationalist group , have issued a declaration to the effect that the Mishima , coincidentally named after one of the heroes of the movement , was lost through an unprovoked sneak attack , and that it would be avenged . |
| 17 | Rain believed he was reaching towards one of the cups on the table , but Barbara Coleman stood across the table from him and she recoiled . |
| 18 | He turned and stumped away on his short , thick legs towards one of the boxes which bordered the yard . |
| 19 | The blame seemed to be directed towards one of the residents — a lady , separated from her husband , who was known to return home in the early hours . |
| 20 | ‘ I need to go and change , ’ he said , with a gesture towards one of the motorhomes , ‘ but I wo n't be long . ’ |
| 21 | When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress . |
| 22 | As he turned away from her to head towards one of the tow-lifts , Shannon smiled a little sadly , not really sure whether she 'd won or lost that particular skirmish . |
| 23 | The hysterical shrieks subsided into sobs , and Britta put her arm around Lacuna , comforting her and leading her slowly towards one of the doors in the perimeter of the chamber . |
| 24 | ‘ Very well , ’ Mobuto replied after a moment 's thought then moved away with the Chief of Protocol , heading towards one of the limousines . |
| 25 | She bit her lip in indecision before once more walking purposefully towards one of the lifts . |
| 26 | From Middleton Bridge we followed the Rawthey to Brigflatts and sat in the garden in the sun , a black tulip growing solitary amongst the mass of wild flowers below one of the windows . |
| 27 | Some existing treatments of anaphor resolution ignore this problem by only considering one of the sources of candidates ; for example , the algorithms of Sidner ( 1979a ) and the work of Grosz , Joshi & Weinstein ( 1983 ) seem to treat only intersentential anaphora , while much work in theoretical linguistics does not venture beyond sentence boundaries . |
| 28 | I said , ‘ Lets have that coat , I 'll put it in front of one of the radiators . ’ |
| 29 | Theodora drew rein on top of one of the dunes . |
| 30 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |