Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] one [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 2 | He is classified as having a patron/client because of the observed relationship with a large organisation which was one among a number of significant clients . |
| 3 | There was one on the back of the settee in the living-room . |
| 4 | There was one on the persecution of the Church , another on the post-war internment camps for dissidents , another on the collectivisation of the villages , still another on the show trials of the early 1950s . |
| 5 | Er I remember a debate , they 'd two debates , there was one on the Market Square and there was one at the Cosmo , between the Black Shirts er and of course the Cosmo platform was open to anybody , did n't matter who they were , any shade of opinion . |
| 6 | There was one on the course erm Monday and Tuesday about how they introduce themselves . |
| 7 | And every so often erm the British look at this with a rather interested eye , and you 'll find that erm Parliamentary committees erm there was one on the British Civil Service about two years , three years ago , nineteen seventy-seven , they went over to France to have a look at how the French did this to see if they could learn anything from the French experience , but in fact it 's very difficult to transport somebody else 's experience , lock , stock and barrel , into the British situation , and they quite sensibly concluded this would n't be a good idea . |
| 8 | They liked violent , even pornographic films , and there was one at the local cinema . |
| 9 | Well there was one at the end at en e at the end of er Walk . |
| 10 | Er I remember a debate , they 'd two debates , there was one on the Market Square and there was one at the Cosmo , between the Black Shirts er and of course the Cosmo platform was open to anybody , did n't matter who they were , any shade of opinion . |
| 11 | why , erm , at Dawn 's we erm done this thing , and it was sort of , there was four sides of it and it was one , then there was two inside , well there was one at the back , erm , Henry and Mrs said when you get these back you 'll see what you 've got , and people , she said , people who have got over twenty of er , the better than the people who are lower and I got twenty one |
| 12 | There was one with a stretcher and Red Cross nurses were represented . |
| 13 | There was one with a monkey in too , crammed in this little shell with the side cut away so you could see in . |
| 14 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 15 | There was one for every play of the cycle — one for The Garden of Eden , one for The murder of Abel , one for The Sacrifice of Isaac , one for The destruction of the World … |
| 16 | There was one towards the end that was very slow , very simple , very sad , but so beautiful beyond words or drawing or anything but music , beautiful there in the moonlight . |
| 17 | There was one about a fortnight ago , and would have given my ears for the sort of civilian committee , and the methods that they 're using here , compared with the ones I saw in London . |
| 18 | ‘ There was one about the States and Mexico . |
| 19 | Odd survivors burned like overhead beacons ; there was one under the bridge just ahead , and another one about a hundred yards beyond . |
| 20 | There was one amongst the dross people in their three ranks of fives who stood out . |
| 21 | Referring to a case where grammar school children got drunk one night and began damaging cars and property , one of the juvenile liaison police said , ‘ It was the old drink , like , that did it , but there was one from a local children 's home . |
| 22 | Yes , it 'll be worth following that up , cos that 's , that 's one of the erm , they , they 've done quite a lot of work of Amnesty and general studies in the past , there was a sheet of sort of quotes of , how good the Amnesty was , and there was one from the teacher at Birchwood or what , what 's Margaret Dane School , so erm , yes , if , if you could definitely follow that up erm John |
| 23 | However , because all the cards bearing messages of sympathy had been removed , exactly who had sent flowers other than his immediate family , and whether there was one from the infamous Kray twins , must remain a mystery to all but the Thompsons themselves . |
| 24 | There was one from an American girl in Berlin . |
| 25 | There was one by the newsstand sometimes , scraping at a violin , but he had a tough time competing with the unofficial buskers who had loud guitars and stronger voices . |
| 26 | There was one in a loden green suit with a felt hat — in May ! — and terrible legs . |
| 27 | Unless there was one in the back wall , he would have to abandon the entire exercise . |
| 28 | That same design of fan was in use five hundred years ago on Møn : there was one in the frescos at Sandweg . … |
| 29 | Did at least 50% of those interviewed state that they would buy the products mentioned from a hypermarket if there was one in the area ? |
| 30 | There was one in the cell . |