Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [verb] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the season Chapman called me in and said it was time for me to decide one way or the other . |
| 2 | Equality brings emancipation : according to Marx it will be ‘ possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow , to hunt in the morning , fish in the afternoon , rear cattle in the evening , criticise after dinner , just as I have a mind without ever becoming hunter , fisherman , shepherd or critic ’ . |
| 3 | But it is equally likely to be either one of the pair , and if you average over lots of sperms ( or eggs ) it turns out that half of them contain one allele , half the other . |
| 4 | And all of them had one thing in mind . |
| 5 | Fortunately , most of them try one flight and dislike it so much that they avoid flying again . |
| 6 | The consequence has been to diminish the credibility of both ; for nobody can have any confidence that what either of them says one week will still be government policy the next . |
| 7 | Rick tried to ensure their involvement by inviting each of them to contribute one unit of activities to the year 's scheme of work . |
| 8 | So , erm , and also as Joan pointed out if you 've got four , if two of you want one thing and two another , there is n't a casting vote , so erm , five might be better . |
| 9 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 10 | Patrick does n't know for you know one log from another . |
| 11 | ‘ The mate who was with him said one minute he was talking to Tony at the side of the road and the next he was flat on his back . |
| 12 | All had agreed that one Christopher E. Chryselius would be employed in the workings , and he was to he paid one guinea a week — no mean wage . |
| 13 | I just think it 's important that say at they have one reference point |
| 14 | A man had a got killed , and there was a man named out at he lost one eye . |
| 15 | If it is so necessary for us to opt one way or the other , is it perhaps that here too Christianity has caused a split in human nature of which the people of harmony knew nothing ? " |
| 16 | for us to prove one way or the other that that , that that they co , the advantages out weigh the disadvantages . |