Example sentences of "[art] [indef pn] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . Whoops I 'll put that on the Somebody left a highlighter in my office on Friday , a yellow one ? |
| 2 | She recalled his sister 's words : ‘ Even in our childish games , he would never be the one to take a life . ’ |
| 3 | It turned out I was the one to take the inventory . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's escaped from prison , ’ Hari said quickly , ‘ but he had n't done anything , it was someone else who cheated and lied and Craig was the one to take the blame . ’ |
| 5 | And the side that drew against Barnet last Saturday , could be the one to do the trick . |
| 6 | But erm I suppose she would have been the one to do the cleaning and washing up or whatever . |
| 7 | She might well have owned that it was the other way round and that Rosemary 's husband had been the one to do the leaving , Leith realised , when her mother retorted , ‘ Well , she 's not living at her flat , is she ? |
| 8 | no you do it , its your responsibility , your the one earning the vouchers |
| 9 | The adult you — the one watching the film — would know perfectly well that the fall had hurt and distressed you and would be able to say so . |
| 10 | Do not be the one to initiate the handshake but be quick to respond to the interviewer 's gesture . |
| 11 | There are the lovers , where the apparently weaker one of the two seems to be the one calling the tune . |
| 12 | And since he 's the one initiating the meetings all we have to do is get his consent to erm the her his s signature , and the other people 's sort of |
| 13 | In the end , he simply stared at her , shaking his head as if she had been the one to ask the question . |
| 14 | ‘ As it was your idea , perhaps you should be the one to drive the dog away . ’ |
| 15 | Yet in just about the most sensitive election , the one to choose a President of the United States , there was interference from Britain . |
| 16 | Since both were wrong , it is of little practical significance that where the one saw the change stealing upon the scene like a thief in the night , the other envisaged the proletariat oppressed beyond further endurance rising in response to the call to the class war to enforce the change . |
| 17 | Ted Coppel ( a US TV reporter ) was the one to cause the election . |
| 18 | ‘ Look at the one wearing the collar , then or now , there 's only ever been one liar , and it 's the Holy Roman Empire . ’ |
| 19 | You 're the one wearing the wig . ’ |
| 20 | You gave instructions that I would be the one to blow the lid off . |
| 21 | It was rather like being in charge of Tinkerbell , in that she was the one flashing the torch . |
| 22 | The prosaic police explanation was sex plus drugs , the one liberating the violence implicit in the other . |
| 23 | The apostles had hoped that Jesus would have been the one to set the people free . |
| 24 | The proposal for monitoring by silent , closed-circuit television cameras , he said , would be implemented as recommended , but the one to allow a prisoner the right to consult a solicitor every forty-eight hours would be curtailed to the extent that ‘ where it is thought necessary ’ a senior police officer would be present . |
| 25 | An example of an ‘ instant ’ bill in the last session was the one abolishing the dock labour scheme , which sparked a national dock strike . |
| 26 | On rather boring walks on Hampstead Heath with a pram containing our younger brother , with Laura and my older sister , all sent out for air and exercise , Basil and I would enliven matters with long conversations , vying with one another over imaginary purchases of imaginary horses the one outstripping the other over the purchase price . |
| 27 | Determine randomly which character is nearest to the pupa , and is the one to witness the transformation . |
| 28 | However , if Kinnock is the one getting the applause , the Majors should be able to make a smooth exit . |
| 29 | Apart from projects of a more institutional nature , for example the one involving the emigration of German-speaking art experts , is Hamburg University 's Art History Department engaged in any other of a more methodological kind ? |
| 30 | The one holding the sword was young . |