Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 2 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 3 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 4 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 5 | My agent had exposed himself as one of the conspirators . |
| 6 | The moans and songs lie low and gentle , then rise to a wild screaming force of sound as though all the ghosts of time had gathered themselves into one great , explosive cry . |
| 7 | They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another . |
| 8 | It belonged to another College , which had let it to one of its fellows . |
| 9 | What I 'd suddenly recalled was a picture hanging over the altar in the caravan ; this in turn had reminded me of one of the statues over the south porch of the Cathedral . |
| 10 | Gran had noticed it three evenings ago , when they were getting the breakfast things ready , and had pushed it behind one of the geraniums as if she did n't like the sight of it . |
| 11 | She had met him at one of those dinner parties which had now become the nexus of her social life , replacing conferences and meetings , although few of the individuals had changed . |
| 12 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 13 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 14 | He had crossed them off one by one until there was no one left but Una O'Malley . |
| 15 | When , three years ago , news of Implexion 's investiture into the Chamber of Ten had come to the Redoubt , Dauntless had locked himself in one of the private chapels for two days . |
| 16 | The Shah 's own household had provided him with one of the major problems of his reign . |
| 17 | There was a fairly large number of letters about him , sent in the last few months both to Jackson 's and to Viola Machin by people who had known him at one time or another . |
| 18 | He had found her in one of the outlying villages . |
| 19 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 20 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 21 | Martinho had led them from one identical spot to another , sure each time it was the place , blundering through the heat and humidity with a fresh excuse burbling from his thick lips . |
| 22 | On the slow descent to Bristol airport a creature had attached itself to one of the wings . |
| 23 | The problem arose if our visitors had changed them between one trip and the next , when he would be completely foxed . |
| 24 | Rome was , I suppose , the capital of the art world , but Rome was essentially an international place where many a Britisher was famous ; where Flaxman , for instance , had established himself as one of the most famous artists in the world . |