Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , their scraping teen reveries and gleefully shambolic trashings of the likes of ‘ Fight For Your Right ’ and Barry Manilow 's ‘ Mandy ’ make them one of the most entertaining and , occasionally , promising prospects around , regardless of insularity . |
| 2 | I mean I one of the things that I 've always sort of had in mind is that we put it down in the reception area . |
| 3 | Cos the the reason they , they er done away with the steam tugs and had a diesel , because a diesel you could start up and er when the dredging finished they tipped the tug at Ipswich and er if they want they one of the big ships up the river , cos then they could start the diesel up quite , right away , whereby a steam tug you a fire there all the time . |
| 4 | ‘ I can at least say that I have been there and I count myself one of the lucky ones . ’ |
| 5 | Even now , I consider it one of the best machines ever made . |
| 6 | Consider yourself one of the family . |
| 7 | Consider yourself one of the family . |
| 8 | ‘ Give us one of the real giants in the semi-finals with a 15,000 crowd and the chance to say ‘ thanks for the money ’ on the way out . |
| 9 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 10 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 11 | For the simple reason you know you one of the if someone starts on one person in our group all the rest of the group can get together and get them . |
| 12 | Lofoten is the most beautiful place I have known , yet I find it one of the most difficult places to write about . |
| 13 | I find it one of the fastest most exciting games about ! |
| 14 | Wright 's combination of autocracy , determination to advance and understand medical science , love of logic and new words , contempt for women , and occasional humility make him one of the most fascinating characters in the history of therapeutic progress . |
| 15 | The drooping snout and the torpedo-like body , coupled with big fins and muscles like Charles Atlas , make him one of the best , if not the best , fighting coarse fish . |
| 16 | Here lived Gottfried Keller ( 1819–90 ) , the Swiss poet and novelist whose carefully crafted short stories embrace both humour and a touching romanticism , and make him one of the most important figures of Swiss literature . |
| 17 | Free from injury and in the mood , his vast array of skills make him one of the most feared attackers in the modern game . |
| 18 | On 7 December last year , Mayor Carrie Saxon Perry of Hartford , Connecticut — the first African-American woman elected mayor of a major city , a progressive Democrat whose eloquent oratory and elegant clothes alike make her one of the state 's most recognisable figures — was master of ceremonies at the opening of a political campaign office on Main Street . |
| 19 | In fact , the light weight , the attractive looks , the easy-feeling neck and the light , low action make it one of the most pick-up-able guitars we 've had for some time . |
| 20 | Wherever you look , the French countryside is brimming with light , colour , the aroma of herbs growing in the wild , and a people and scenery that make it one of the most wonderfully enticing parts of the world . |
| 21 | These were counterbalanced by acquisitions of EB Signals A/S's four traffic systems companies in Denmark , Finland , Norway and Sweden — resulting in the formation of Peek Traffic Scandinavia ; the Norwegian traffic company Gemo Elektro A/S ( CI No 1,998 ) ; East German company Unicomp ( CI No 1,905 ) ; a majority shareholding in Munich-based STM ; and the purchase this month of Signal Control and Signal Maintenance : these US acquisitions , Peek reckons , make it one of the world 's largest traffic controller suppliers , and also represent a new departure into the service sector . |
| 22 | Borage has star-shaped flowers of an intense blue rarely seen in other plants and these , together with its long-flowering tendency , ease of cultivation , and hardiness , make it one of the best garden plants . |
| 23 | It might be that , humbug aside , " the life and habits of the common seaman render him one of the most unfeeling , unprincipled beings on earth . |
| 24 | About the exchange of bird species between closely adjacent islands Wallace noted : ‘ Birds offer us one of the best means of determining the law of distribution ; for though at first sight it would appear that the watery boundaries that kept out the land quadrupeds could be easily passed over by birds , yet practically it is not so ; for if we leave out the aquatic tribes ( seabirds ) which are preeminently wanderers , it is found that the others ( and especially the passeres , or perching birds , which form the vast majority ) are often as strictly limited by straits and arms of the sea as are quadrupeds themselves . ’ |
| 25 | Note that there are two sizes of both ES and BC ( the smaller ones are labelled SES and SBC ) , so it is vital that you check which one of the four connections your light fitting takes before buying the lamps . |