Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] one [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm I mean one way to do it of course is to say that none of our water 's fit for drinking , and you all get bottled water then would n't you . |
| 2 | And in fact in the early stages I got one man working for me and er I went back into teaching again for a short time to help out at a school where the the the teacher was ill , and I was teaching in the morning and then doing two-man jobs in the afternoon , and he was doing one man jobs in the morning . |
| 3 | I recollect one girl putting on dark glasses as a disguise in the hope that she would be luckier than Oliver Twist . |
| 4 | I woke one night to hear noises downstairs . |
| 5 | I have kept a journal , which I hope one day to publish . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think I could stand being a nurse because I would get too involved , so I hope one day to join the fire brigade , ’ she said . |
| 7 | They are still more puzzled as I wish them good evening and they recognise my Scots accent , As I quickly follow behind the French Commandos I hear one Canadian say to the other . |
| 8 | ‘ I know one person has . |
| 9 | The captain is now advised to store it in a bank , after it has been duly admired by friends and family , though I know one captain kept it under his bed , causing his mother a lot of sleepless nights ! |
| 10 | Publicity for homelessness was part of the business and I know one lad said he 'd only got two pounds of sponsorship and er I thought well you 've you 've done rather well to get two quid . |
| 11 | I know one fellow called Ashworth , he were bit of a coal merchant , I remember him shouting one day across to somebody , ‘ I backed a winner . ’ |
| 12 | We used to have House matches at the Hurlingham track , and I remember one afternoon competing in the 100 , 200 and 400 metres and the three jumps — high , long and triple . |
| 13 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 14 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 15 | I remember one man called Paternoster : that 's a good old Suffolk name . |
| 16 | ‘ I remember one journalist went on about her black dress from Yves Saint Laurent at the wedding , and how I wore cords , as if they were shocked that Catherine Deneuve would be with someone like me . |
| 17 | I remember one teacher retiring several years ago in Nottingham said to me er he says I 'm sticking with the Nationwide , me . |
| 18 | I remember one fellow spat in my face . |
| 19 | You 'd expect about ta , thanks you used to think cor christ and then I , I mean all the bits I did for them and I remember one woman getting up saying come on Flo come and stretch and she said who are you ? |
| 20 | And I always remember , now whether this is true I would n't know , and I do n't think I 've ever spoke about this before but I , thinking about it just now , it 's just struck me , I remember one chap saying , Well now if we put some barbed wire across the road about two foot high , he said , No horse will jump over barbed wire , now I do n't know I do n't suppose that 's true I do n't think it is but this chap said that . |
| 21 | I heard one man say ‘ bastards ' ’ as a group of policemen went past him . |
| 22 | I heard one man say . |
| 23 | I heard one man say . |
| 24 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 25 | After a week of that I decided one night to leave in the morning . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw one man thrown at least 20 feet in the air by the blast , ’ said a porter , Anand Mojar , from his hospital bed . |
| 27 | ‘ I saw one man thrown at least 20 feet in the air by the blast , ’ said a porter , Anand Mojar , from his hospital bed . |
| 28 | But finally I saw one animal come through the grass to play . |
| 29 | ‘ I saw one soldier standing in the road . |
| 30 | I saw one player push fans out of the way at the Australian Open this year . |