Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] one [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The seniors did five laps and after one circuit it was Martin in the lead by six seconds . |
| 2 | I remember once that I could not and with one swoop she was upon me — over the head , down the back , on my bare legs , until in agony and terror I ran for the house screaming for my father . |
| 3 | The doctors gave their services , the nurses gave their services , all the lay workers give their services and from one clinic we went to seven clinics in a week ! |
| 4 | He shook it and in one second it became a shiny top hat . |
| 5 | The subject turned out to be vast and in one year I barely scratched the surface ! |
| 6 | Clark had a bad back — arthritis — and in one scene they are driving through the crowd going to the rodeo . |
| 7 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 8 | And in one room she found the tattered remnants of a standard , white , emblazoned with the image of a bird . |
| 9 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 10 | And it would just completely throw the lesson , and then I would find myself repeating it for them , and in one lesson I must have done that about three times , and I did n't make enough fuss to get those kids to the lesson on time . |
| 11 | Whole books have been devoted to the topic of sensitivity analysis in linear programming , and in one chapter we can do little more than indicate basic themes . |
| 12 | She is modestly draped but wears jewellery , and in one vignette she applies perfume to her hair with a pin dipped in a flask . |
| 13 | When Mr Bennet rang the doorbell he had his hands full of pieces of cardboard and balls of string and sticky tape and over one shoulder he carried a bright red blanket . |
| 14 | She wanted to hate him , and on one level she did , but part of her still wanted him , and that seemed the worst betrayal of all . |
| 15 | Once she suddenly landed up in hospital for what was not an emergency ; several times she had found herself in a new home ; and on one occasion she had arrived in another country with a new ‘ father ’ — all without warning or previous explanation . |
| 16 | Men from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders berthed on the ship and on one occasion she had war scars inflicted on her when a bomb fell on Portland Place and debris rained down on the top deck gouging pieces out of the timbers . |
| 17 | He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt . |
| 18 | He therefore never spoke ill of Harrow ; and on one occasion he announced in a speech there that when he was first called upon to form a government he was determined to have the unprecedented number of six Harrovians in his Cabinet . |
| 19 | It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly Cautinus was terrified of Chramn , and on one occasion he abandoned the annual pilgrimage from Clermont to Brioude , because he thought that the prince 's men were pursuing him . |
| 21 | We discussed my pacifism , and on one occasion I denied my convictions , just to be on his side . |
| 22 | Twice he passed me his pipe to cut the ends of my suture and on one occasion I found myself trying in the dim light to thread the silk through his reaming tool . |
| 23 | Benjamin 's shoulders twitched and on one occasion I saw him shiver . |
| 24 | Clearly there is something very important going on in this move , and at one level it is indeed a necessary corrective to the textual isolationism of much modernist criticism . |
| 25 | I was repeatedly threatened with rape and at one stage they tried to make a fellow detainee rape me . |
| 26 | He saw the boat heading back towards him , and at one stage she came to within fifteen yards of him . |
| 27 | For years he had plodded on in a series of jobs on building sites — and at one stage he even played football as a semi-professional in Ireland . |
| 28 | ‘ Intimidation is his game , and at one stage I had to tell him to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 29 | Wright lost his infamous temper , picked up a booking and Monkou said : ‘ Intimidation is his game and at one stage I had to tell him to calm down a bit . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |