Example sentences of "[art] [indef pn] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Drink up , ’ said the darts club wit , ‘ and I 'll tell you the one about the girl who married the sailor . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Has anybody heard the one about the Maniak Chieftain and the six-weeks-dead camel corpse ? ’ |
| 3 | Go upstairs and get the one about the animal circus is it ? |
| 4 | We hear the saga of Lila , Molly and the so-called Charity Collector ; Second-Cousin Sadie denting her best new soup-ladle on the head of a Fascist in the blackshirts ' march down Cable Street ; the one about the optician who gave Mama free spectacles in exchange for a bottle of her home-made slivovitz ; What Minna told the Would-be Matchmaker ; Lila and the Driving Instructor : and , finally , The Day We Moved from Whitechapel and Baby Becky Was Almost Left Behind . |
| 5 | ‘ The one about the Cumaean Sibyl . |
| 6 | Like the one about the army camp demonstration ? ’ |
| 7 | Also , do n't forget that DOL is potentially a good managerial prospect … maybe a Strach-DOL partnership … that 'll be interesting … ‘ heard the one about the Irishman & the Scotsman managing a footbal team … ’ : - ) |
| 8 | Did you hear the one about the rabbi who sneaks out of the synagogue on Shabbos to play a secret game of golf when he should have been praying ? |
| 9 | And did you hear the one about the rabbi caught out , on the most solemn fast-day of the year , slurping down a dozen oysters . |
| 10 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 11 | I meant , about the , the one about the rockets and Manchester . |
| 12 | Have you heard the one about the EastEnders stars who are forced to provide their own fags for smoking scenes ? |
| 13 | I think a point that comes over very much is the one about the structure and when I talk to people and listen to what they say , they 're still in the very traditional |
| 14 | Right , well that 's good , erm , and , so in , in relation to the A G M erm we did , we were asked about putting in motion 's erm , are you having to leave the one about the press after what John said ? |
| 15 | He pointed to the yellow sign — the one about the driver 's helplessness in the face of any bill larger than five . |
| 16 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |
| 17 | It 's like something on a television thing , Crossroads maybe , or General Hospital , or the one about the women in prison . " |
| 18 | He did not feel hungry , and the alcohol sent his imagination soaring into the smoky roof beams , so that he lost the thread of the story Ratagan was telling him — the one about the Dwarf and the Firewood , he thought muzzily . |
| 19 | DID YOU hear the one about the parachutist who landed in a field but was n't sure of his whereabouts ? |
| 20 | Heard the one about the guy from Heaton Mersey ? |
| 21 | ‘ The one about the house . ’ |
| 22 | Pike gave us all four verses , including the one about the wagon train being painted green , which I had never heard before . |
| 23 | I do n't think we would have worn all four verses again ( especially the one about the wagon being painted green ) but , when he got to the line about the deer and the antelope playing , he burst into tears . |
| 24 | I 'd write down last night 's dream , and then I 'd write down that recurring one , the one about the cave with the echoing voices . |
| 25 | or is yours the one about the Dock Road ? |
| 26 | HEARD the one about the Dutchman , the Ukrainian and the two Englishmen ? |
| 27 | HAVE you heard the one about the Englishman , the Irishman and the Yank ? |
| 28 | Urban Myths ( Virgin , £3.99 ) is a fun little stocking-filler of more than 200 tall tales that stretch truth to breaking point — like the one about the poodle in the microwave . |
| 29 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 30 | But but that , that , the one about the train |