Example sentences of "[prep] one [prep] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angry parents are demanding an explanation from a bus company after one of its drivers took their children on a six mile detour . |
| 2 | That privilege was given to the women a year ago after one of their colleagues Anna McGurk was murdered in the more remote Castlemeads car park . |
| 3 | He was made out to be the bad guy playing against Seve , especially after one of their clashes at Wentworth in the World Matchplay , but I do n't know . |
| 4 | He always adopted a practical attitude in such affairs and , as Pound remarked after one of their conversations , " There is always a core of solid sense in Mr Eliot 's talk " . |
| 5 | Cambridge 's inability to shake off Oxford , who poignantly named their boat the John Hebbes after one of their oarsmen who died recently , by the end of the Surrey bend was the crucial factor . |
| 6 | On Gordon Durie : ‘ I was n't surprised when he was substituted because he was already crying after one of my tackles on him . ’ |
| 7 | The inshore lifeboat only came into action to take the men ashore after one of our vessels was damaged . ’ |
| 8 | Coming home , ’ Napoleon wrote to Josephine after one of his campaigns . |
| 9 | Ira brought them from Victoria after one of his visits with Emily . |
| 10 | He was speaking after one of his planes with just over a hundred Britons on board left Jordan with more half the seats empty because of diplomatic red tape . |
| 11 | He was speaking after one of his planes with just over 100 Britons on board left Jordan with more than half the seats empty because of diplomatic red tape . |
| 12 | He tells of one teacher who was interviewed by police for 12 hours , and then suspended from work for six months after one of his pupils accused him of touching her up . |
| 13 | I must have been spot on his wavelength for I never left the quiet room after one of his healings without a sense , almost of VROOOOM ! |
| 14 | Oscar Esmond Godolphin always recited a little prayer in praise of democracy when , after one of his trips to the Dominions , he stepped back on to English soil . |
| 15 | One Italian who was executed for war crimes — General Bellomo — was the only anti-fascist army officer at a senior level ; he was found guilty after one of his men shot an escaping British prisoner of war at Bari . |
| 16 | Left A spadefoot toad falls foul of one of its predators — the hognose snake . |
| 17 | AMERICA ordered an aircraft carrier into the Gulf yesterday as Iraq threatened revenge over the shooting down of one of its warplanes . |
| 18 | Similarly , Sauguet 's cat probably thought that his owner needed help , and rushed over to lick the hands from which the sounds seemed to be coming , as a way of comforting him — just as a mother cat would rush across to lick the fur of one of its kittens if the young animal appeared to be in distress . |
| 19 | John 's sudden death on 23 November 1258 thus deprived the new regime of one of its bastions . |
| 20 | ICI Agricultural products in Cold Creek , USA , reduced the amount of liquid hazardous waste produced by the annual clean-out of one of its reactors by 87 per cent since 1991 . |
| 21 | Example cold approach for contacting a group holding company regarding the sale of one of its subsidiaries |
| 22 | In some cases of ‘ disappearance ’ the whole family is held responsible for the ‘ crime ’ of one of its members . |
| 23 | By 1895 , with the sensational trial of Oscar Wilde ( one of those ‘ writers of elegant and glittering literature , glossing over vice ’ , denounced by the Reverend Richard Armstrong of the Social Purity Alliance ) , the government felt obliged to prosecute because a relative of one of its members was mentioned in the case . |
| 24 | A house church congregation may gather for worship in the home of one of its members , but commonly it assembles in a hall or other large meeting-place . |
| 25 | Unwillingness to stand out has its roots in village life , where a community could be held accountable for the actions of one of its members . |
| 26 | It may be , however , that the dictum is an overstatement of the true position and that the agency principle does not require that the act of one partner be that of all for all purposes , but merely deems that to be the case for the limited purpose of attaching liability to the firm for the acts and omissions of one of its members . |
| 27 | This book had been preceded by the publication of one of its chapters , in 1924 , in The Communist Academy Herald . |
| 28 | Since the start of UN mediation in August Israel had received the remains of one of its servicemen and proof that two others were definitely dead . |
| 29 | One early sign of the rewards the FDP could expect from its moderating role was the election of one of its leaders , Theoder Heuss , as Federal President in September 1949 . |
| 30 | The fighting intensified on Jan. 11 as the previously neutral Murasad subclan entered the battle , against Farah Aydid , after the looting of the home of one of its leaders . |