Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] one [prep] the " 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 | There was one on the back of the settee in the living-room . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was one on the course erm Monday and Tuesday about how they introduce themselves . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They liked violent , even pornographic films , and there was one at the local cinema . |
| 8 | Well there was one at the end at en e at the end of er Walk . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ There was one about the States and Mexico . |
| 13 | Odd survivors burned like overhead beacons ; there was one under the bridge just ahead , and another one about a hundred yards beyond . |
| 14 | There was one amongst the dross people in their three ranks of fives who stood out . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Unless there was one in the back wall , he would have to abandon the entire exercise . |
| 19 | That same design of fan was in use five hundred years ago on Møn : there was one in the frescos at Sandweg . … |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | There was one in the cell . |
| 22 | And I mean whenever there was one in the flats , you could hear it probably throughout the whole complex . |
| 23 | There was one in the Caribbean , which collapsed . |
| 24 | there was one in the paper , there was a picture of it in the paper , and it , I 'm sure , it did say the old gate bridge , I 'm sure and it was nearly owt it was going over the bridge |
| 25 | alcove and there was one in the one far corner and sitting on the corner together , they were holding hands going every so often he hears . |
| 26 | It was one in the morning when the DDA put down the phone and wiped his hands on his pyjamas . |
| 27 | It was one in the eye for the old order . |
| 28 | He made no sound : he was one with the land . |