Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or else — more generously — I am buying one shirt for myself and two for my son . |
| 2 | I 'm taking one officer , John Massingham , with me . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm taking one hell of a chance on you . ’ |
| 4 | The figure below shows a portion of the word lattice for a fine-class representation of EvalA2 ( I 'm naming one man among many ) . |
| 5 | In I 'm naming one man among many , therefore , an initial attempt is made to match a long word to the sequence ( Fig 7.5.1 ) . |
| 6 | Yeah , but she said I were called one night I went with her daughter-in-law |
| 7 | If I were to seek one word to describe the quality of these works of art many by famous names , many by local artists to whom the purchase brought rare encouragement — I should say that they are alive . |
| 8 | So for instance if my backup window is an hour and that 's how long it take me to backup my database today , if had the backup server and I was using one device it took an hour , if I used two it would learn one dialect of S Q L. as |
| 9 | My job as a curate took mornings , afternoons and evenings , six days a week — I was given one day off — so there was no time to get fit by walking . |
| 10 | Here I was given one piece of advice : ‘ For you , the simplest is the best . ’ |
| 11 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
| 12 | I was waiting one night for a bus from South Kensington to Fulham when two of them , who obviously had had one or two over the eight came towards me . |
| 13 | I was to have one visit from the district nurse and , of course , check-ups from my GP and surgeon . |
| 14 | A. T. I was reported one day . |
| 15 | I put my name on the list with everyone else , but was absolutely dumbfounded when I was told one day that it had come up , along with that of one of the other Waafs , and if we wanted to go we were to report to RAF Wyton at 10.00 hours the next day . |
| 16 | I was told one flight was full , and left the gate to mooch around the newsstands . |
| 17 | I was seized one day with the desire to go to the United States for a period of study . |
| 18 | The existence of such conflicts had been acknowledged and deplored as early as the 1580s by George Gifford 's non-Puritan countryman , who had commented : ‘ I know towns myself which are divided one part against another since they had a preacher , which was not so before … whereas before they loved each other , now there is dissension sown among them . ’ |
| 19 | Note the wage rate at any point in time ( t ) is made up of an average of wages which were set one period earlier and those set two periods before . |
| 20 | The Maths Department assists in an S1 and S2 Computer Familiarisation course which is allocated one period per week . |
| 21 | There were four nurses ' rooms each of which was to contain one bedstead , a flock bed , pillow and bolster and two blankets , two pairs of sheets and two pillow-cases ; the porter 's room was similarly furnished . |
| 22 | Experience shows that this would not be so , as people bent on suicide who are denied one method will choose an alternative . |
| 23 | Editor , — John Spooner calls on experience when he states that ‘ people bent on suicide who are denied one method will choose an alternative . ’ |
| 24 | The English couple and the blond Californian who are staying one night arrive . |
| 25 | If you are replacing one copper cylinder with another , you may find one with the connections in the same place . |
| 26 | If you are to have one set of valuable notes , do n't lend them even to friends ! |
| 27 | Well if you 're passing one bottla pink plonk |
| 28 | I think you 're taking one example there actually Angela ! |
| 29 | You 're getting one bit . |
| 30 | Cos while you 're getting one signature , twenty people walks by you . |