Example sentences of "[vb past] one [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 2 | We tried one on a child 's jumper , chest size 66cm ( 26″ ) , using the template for children 5–8 , and this worked out very well . |
| 3 | ‘ Sir Mortimer Wheeler found one with a spear in his back . ’ |
| 4 | There 's only three , yeah three they reckon left in the world and they found one with a Japanese |
| 5 | The friend found one at a garage . |
| 6 | I found one in a cave in the Scilly Isles . |
| 7 | At first the books came one at a time . |
| 8 | Even if you have never given a bottle feed yourself it is possible that the baby received one from a nurse while in the maternity ward . |
| 9 | Time trapped one in a masquerade with costumes of its own choice . |
| 10 | I was normally the first RAF person to view the scene , and I find it quite unbearable to attempt to describe the desolation and carnage that confronted one on a hilltop in the isolation and splendour of the Scottish Highlands . |
| 11 | But mine has a , mine has a grill , I got one with a grill |
| 12 | I got , aha , I got on I got one with a camera . |
| 13 | Robert Hennell , 1741–1811 , a London silversmith , made one with a handle in the form of a nymph and the base as a dolphin , decorated with shells and rocks — all covered with a frosted finish . |
| 14 | conclude on the basis of recent work on tachistoscopic word recognition that , at least with single-syllable words exposed one at a time to left or right visual hemifield , artefacts due to directional scanning contribute little if anything to hemifield asymmetry . |
| 15 | He raised one as a pet and named it ‘ Snouter ’ . |
| 16 | He afflicted one with a sense of unwarranted intrusion on one 's private concerns . |
| 17 | The stairway brought one to a first-floor lobby , a vast room of chandeliers and mahogany panelling and bentwood chairs with velvet cushions . |
| 18 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 19 | Eventually she rejected all the samples and chose one off a shade card , that had n't cost anything . |
| 20 | Back home you only ever saw one at a time . |
| 21 | Within a very short time , I dealt with three fractured femurs in Church Street — I never saw one with a foot turned out . |
| 22 | I 'd like to get a Martin D45 ; I saw one in a catalogue for $100,000 , which is a bit more than I would care to pay ! ’ |
| 23 | I wore one for a photo-session and it was great fun . |
| 24 | They 're usually purchased over the counter with no instructions , but last week I bought one in a plastic sleeve , on which the following instructions were printed : ‘ This voltage indicator is suitable for testing AC voltage from 100 volts up to a maximum of 500 volts against earth The metal part on top of the indicator must be touched to operate it , and the earthing position of the user largely determines whether it lights up or not . |
| 25 | ‘ Sexss lady ? ’ hissed one through a gold tooth . |
| 26 | Bosch reared one off a length to have Simmons caught at gully , and Lara proceeded with all guns blazing as if victory was but a boundary away . |
| 27 | had one at a time to contend with before . |
| 28 | Rumours got around that a collector in Paris had one in a bank vault in the 1940s ; but this story was recently investigated , and was found to be based on a misunderstanding . |
| 29 | Looking round her at the cushions , Ellie spotted one with a Regency man and woman on it . |
| 30 | I told him I wanted one with a self-timer on it . |