Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] one [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made one stupid mistake in one of my books , about a car , and I got about 25 letters . |
| 2 | I made one good decision : to wear the trainers on the plane , and carry the paperwork in my hand luggage . |
| 3 | I made one bad decision : to board the plane . |
| 4 | I mean one little boy came in , and he said , What 's that sword doing on the table ? |
| 5 | Justice demands that I stress one important point . |
| 6 | It was a lot if I got one jokey line from him on the back of a postcard . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I played one reserve game for Orient when I was 18 but nothing came of it . ’ |
| 8 | Thousands of feet of shales and mudstones represent one small part ( and I suspect one small part of that small part ) of the jurassic . |
| 9 | I know one other thing that is important , is the fact that a marketing document , the need for a marketing document , which can go to non erm schools , I think erm , brought this up , the need to promote the value of the D S O overall . |
| 10 | I know one gay bar in London which used occasionally to screen porn videos , including safer-sex videos , but that has stopped after discreet pressure from the local nick . |
| 11 | I remember one simplistic piece of Greater London Council propaganda which said ‘ We are all either the victims or the perpetrators of racism ’ . |
| 12 | I remember one dashing lecturer who regularly took his pick from each year 's fresher intake . |
| 13 | She told us stories about her childhood in Clophill ( I think ) but she never told us anything unpleasant , whereas I remember one good lady who loved to horrify us with tales of ghastly happenings ! |
| 14 | He was a very strict man the headmaster , cos I remember one little incident that I thought was rather harsh . |
| 15 | I remember one Welsh fellow up from the Valleys — he run home at night-time . |
| 16 | I remember one particular night , the ambulance was parked in Warwick Square where Ralph lived — it was only about 50 yards from his flat and I was really cold . |
| 17 | I remember one particular night , just before we moved away . |
| 18 | I remember one particular occasion when , on finding ‘ Cheer up Mona ’ written on the blackboard when I arrived to take a class , I went absolutely potty , threatening dire punishment on the whole class — the entire school almost — unless the culprit came forward . |
| 19 | I remember one particular conference held in Dublin in Ballyfermot , around 1973 . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw one 30-year-old man collapse dead as he was looking for ( US aid ) parachutes . ’ |
| 21 | I saw one young boy , of thirteen I would say , have his leg broken by one agent — a brute of a man who grinned when the lad cried out . |
| 22 | I saw one forlorn notice saying " Sergeants ' Mess " , and was about to explore the rest of the camp when I was stopped by a shout . |
| 23 | I thought one long-haired kid was a girl but she was a he ! |
| 24 | In 1988 , at a particularly lively , contentious and near-violent writers ' conference in Budapest , Angela and I listened one quiet afternoon to the omnipresent Susan Sontag as she revealed that she had devoured ( her cliche ) the great classics of English literature soon after discarding her diapers . |
| 25 | May I add one small point ? |
| 26 | Came on coach this morning , ’ I earwigged one middle-aged man telling another in an unadulterated northern accent . |
| 27 | As I drove north , the sky turning greyer and darker and more flags at half-mast , I remembered one final moment in Fayetteville . |
| 28 | I knitted one particular pattern so many times that I dreaded another order as I was beginning to feel like a factory worker . |
| 29 | erm And I think one other citizen should be mentioned , erm which is one John Nixon . |
| 30 | Whereas reactive , I think one typical task that 's a reactive task which is yes , it 's unexpected or whatever , is cardboard collecting , because it 's the type of thing that happens regularly , but it does n't actually get your department , it does n't |