Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [verb] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if nothing else , the McKenna decider served one purpose — it helped to put additional fire in Derry 's bellies . |
| 2 | These three members of the Procellariidae family have one thing in common : they are all ‘ night birds ’ , only coming in to the screes and grassy slopes of the cliffs under cover of darkness to change places with their mate on the single egg , deep within a burrow , or later to feed the young . |
| 3 | The 6ft 2in Cambridge hit-man took one look at Old Trafford , which could n't tempt Southampton 's Shearer , and decided : ‘ This is the place for me . ’ |
| 4 | As Miranda ran out into the square , Tom Cat opened one eye . |
| 5 | Tom Cat opened one eye . |
| 6 | The participants at the Geneva meeting included one lawyer and sixteen physicians or biologists involved in research on , and who provided clinical services with , the new reproductive technologies . |
| 7 | An IRA bomb at London 's Victoria station killed one man and injured 38 other people hours after another exploded at Paddington station . |
| 8 | The Limit has teamed up with the Care For Romania charity to offer one reader and partner the chance to see Jacko perform in Bucharest on September 30 . |
| 9 | Oliver Goldsmith praised one owner , Sir John Parsons , as the brewer of ‘ Parsons ' black champagne ’ . |
| 10 | The BBC 's Sunday night hit One Foot in the Grave was best comedy ahead of Birds of a Feather . |
| 11 | Maidstone prison contains one man who has already served 33 years and staff seemed torn between two beliefs ; one , that the risk he posed ( of further offences against children ) meant that further incarceration was inevitable , the other that his extraordinarily long period in custody meant he would be unable to survive outside the prison walls , anyway . |
| 12 | But , overshadowing all purely technical considerations , the Phillips curve had one attraction which made it even more irresistible : its subject matter was ‘ important ’ . |
| 13 | Just before the Penge route closed one car was taken away to Charlton works , overhauled and repainted in the L.C.C . |
| 14 | Jeremy Mouse opened one eye . |
| 15 | The Hatton flat and the Cullam house had one thing in common , an automatic washing machine . |
| 16 | Several of the schools in the Loughborough survey kept one copy of each currently-used textbook in the library . |
| 17 | Corrigan gives Pears specialist coaching one day a week at Ayresome Park . |
| 18 | As a piece of recording , the Philips set has one advantage in that it makes best use of the excellent John Alldis Choir and puts them well forward , whereas the perfectly good Lyon Opera Chorus is relegated to the middle distance as usual . |
| 19 | Nevertheless in 1987 Dublin North-East had one TD for every 12,712 electors and Dublin South-Central one for every 17,071 . |
| 20 | The Earlex Steama Plus goes one step further . |
| 21 | XRD analysis identifies one inlay as silver-copper-sulphide ( AgCuS ) and the other as silver-sulphide ( Ag 2 S ) contaminated with copper carbonate ( CuCO 3 . |