Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , and I , and I wiped down one side |
| 2 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 3 | ‘ The recovery has been quite quick , just a few weeks , although I woke up one morning feeling terrible and drowsy ’ |
| 4 | I was also reminded that on the same floor I woke up one morning to find the sun shining through the curtains , it being the only day of the entire Frankfurt Book Fair that my room was not below cloud level . |
| 5 | I woke up one Christmas morning , |
| 6 | ‘ Then I woke up one summer morning-it was still dark , the birds were just starting their dawn chorus , and on that particular day there seemed only to be crows — and I felt very cold . |
| 7 | ‘ I came home one day , ten years or so ago , expecting to find you there . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sure he would , the good man , Lord rest him , ’ said Julia and Mrs Redmond went on , ‘ I came home one night and Sarah told me my mother had told her she should start going out and enjoying herself , and I was relieved . |
| 9 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 10 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 11 | I trotted along one evening wondering what Medau was all about . |
| 12 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem , ’ he said . |
| 13 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 14 | As I walked down one side of the hall , keeping close to the sides , and scurrying past the classroom doors , I felt my face grow hot . |
| 15 | I talked non-stop one day for twenty-three hours . |
| 16 | I knew only one obligation : to play the piano well . |
| 17 | I , I liked it at college but I 'm glad I went just one day a week because |
| 18 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 19 | And I went down one day . |
| 20 | I went down one way up the other and |
| 21 | I went there one day and hunted and found the , hiding place . |
| 22 | I went there one spring evening with my diary under my arm , looking for a peaceful place to write . |
| 23 | I went along one night at 6 p.m. precisely , to be turned away by the dragon because ‘ there is no surgery to-night , as no patients have come ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , there was that boy who saw me legs when I fell over one day , ’ said Dolly . |
| 25 | I gave not one cheep , not a chirrup — |
| 26 | So I thought , in my wisdom I thought , there was easier way than that , wh at one bar and I had one rope come under the draw bar with a tow bar , so I said right one bit of rope , one bar , so all the docker got ta do now is take the bar out , take the rope off , that was alright and you could stow 'em on the , on the deck . |
| 27 | Having now seen the answers , I find that my wife and I had just one word wrong . |
| 28 | I had just one weekend of the melting snow and slush on the fells — very wet indeed — during testing , with no possibility of drying the boots after the first day . |
| 29 | As she told a close friend : ‘ I knew I had only one chance to get it right . |
| 30 | I had only one session with him . |