Example sentences of "[vb past] one [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Americans are rich , ’ objected one of the children . |
| 2 | The top management of the division rated one of the departments as creative and innovative and one as very problematic from that aspect . |
| 3 | Led since 1990 by Hubert Ingraham , 45 , the FNM won 33 out of a total of 49 seats , ending a run of five consecutive victories by the Progressive Liberal Party ( PLP ) of Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling , 62 , who retained one of the PLP 's 16 seats . |
| 4 | She went over and tried one of the handles , but the cabinet was locked . |
| 5 | With an eye on the corridor outside , I tried one of the latches and was n't surprised to find it locked . |
| 6 | Before going to the shooting competition , he visited one of the rifle companies doing selection tests for promotion to Lance Corporal . |
| 7 | A local charity worker visited one of the hostels and found four old men sleeping in a basement " using a large baked bean tin as a chamber pot " . |
| 8 | Shadow Employment Secretary Tony Blair visited one of the region 's jobless blackspots , |
| 9 | ‘ Too close to base ? ’ ventured one of the men . |
| 10 | ‘ A MAJOR drugs problem ? ’ mused one of the performers at a rock gig in the Britannia Hall a couple of weeks back . |
| 11 | But when you loosened one of the slate blocks from the castle walls — an easy job , as the castle was slowly crumbling away — and split it open , on every surface so exposed a series of cut or engraved figures was revealed , arranged in lines and columns , complete with word and line breaks and what looked like punctuation . |
| 12 | It proved to be a conservative estimate Marshall Field , who arrived in Chicago with one dollar in his pocket built one of the worlds greatest department stores and had enough spare energy to partner Pullman in the railcar business , become vice-president of both General Electric and the Edison Company , president of United States Steel , founder of the Chicago Sun and a bank which became one of the four biggest in the world . |
| 13 | Retracing her steps , she encountered one of the paper 's rare female employees , who offered to show her the way to the library . |
| 14 | A further example of the alienating effect national anti-nuclear protestors had on local people was provided by the DUC 's Ralph Shepherd when he described one of a series of meetings organized by the DUC to which anti-nuclear groups nationally were invited : |
| 15 | The transfer of souls in reincarnation would be important for The Waste Land , but in 1915 the ‘ revitalizing of the classics ’ , as Eliot later described one of the effects of anthropology , seems most apparent in ‘ Mr. Apollinax ’ where we are made very aware of the primitive , and particularly sexual aspects of classical mythology . |
| 16 | Boswell , who says the high wind blew in their faces , described one of the oarsmen , ‘ a Macleod , a robust , black-haired fellow , half-naked , and bear-headed , something between a wild Indian and an English tar . |
| 17 | He dug this whacking great hole in the floor like a tiger trap and caught one of the flower rota in it . |
| 18 | ‘ I just caught one of the incumbents of this house leaving the premises in a decidedly surreptitious manner . |
| 19 | I jumped up , pushed the boat under the water with my feet , and caught one of the ship 's ropes . |
| 20 | He held it there , and with the other hand cradled one of the globes of her breasts and jounced it , like a buyer testing a melon 's weight in the market . |
| 21 | ‘ Throw down your weapons or I shoot , ’ shouted one of the androids . |
| 22 | ‘ Ca n't be much left of that bloody town , ’ shouted one of the 3″ mortar team as we watched the bombs falling from the aircraft . |
| 23 | ‘ Scotland the Brave ’ shouted one of the Germans , loud enough for everyone to turn to look . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're not allowed , ’ shouted one of the constables . |
| 25 | ‘ Does yer mother know yer out ? ’ shouted one of the lads and then all at once they charged at him and manhandled him to the ground . |
| 26 | ‘ Lovat was enquiring about you earlier on , Piper , ’ shouted one of the medics who had come out of the barn to tend to the wounded . |
| 27 | ‘ Oi , our ball , ’ shouted one of the kids . |
| 28 | ‘ Over here , ’ shouted one of the Sturmabteilungen and the others , six to start with , but soon joined by more from inside the building , ran to where he had found the tripped alarm . |
| 29 | As the Scotland fans dispersed in shame , heading for the bars of Soho and the long train journey home , they created one of the country 's most enduring jokes . |
| 30 | At Episkopi , he found one of the Martini brothers down by the warehouses . |