Example sentences of "[that] [prep] one [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He applied himself enthusiastically to his studies , to the extent that during one term he was attending night classes after completing his normal day classes at Queensbury Highter Elementary School in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 2 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |
| 3 | Fitzgerald calculated the critical number of samples needed to be 80 per cent certain that the mean score would be no more than one year out , and found that in one book it was 72 samples — which amounted to nearly half the book ! |
| 4 | Nothing would stop them , nothing would prise them apart , and she was glad to have them there : she liked to think that she and Charles had a comprehensive acquaintance , that in one house they could assemble representatives of most of the intersecting circles that make up society . |
| 5 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 6 | Obviously , if Jane says I 'm skipping and Mary says I 'm skipping we observe that on one occasion it is Jane who announces that she is skipping and on another it is Mary . |
| 7 | It is not wholly surprising , and is certainly not W. 's fault , that she remained in the grip of the disease , gradually losing weight or that on one occasion she used violence towards a member of the staff in circumstances which led to the police being called . |
| 8 | Roy Dickens , one of our 400 metre runners , told me that on one occasion he and his brother Brian were shopping with their mother when a white man mugged an old lady and ran off with her handbag . |
| 9 | Flaubert does not build up his characters , as did Balzac , by objective , external description ; in fact , so careless is he of their outward appearance that on one occasion he gives Emma brown eyes ( 14 ) ; on another deep black eyes ( 15 ) ; and on another blue eyes ( 16 ) . |
| 10 | He pointed out , however , that on one definition it had in fact arrived ; but the figures concerned were distorted by developments in North Sea oil . |
| 11 | The new remedy rapidly encroached upon the spheres of trespass and replevin so that at one time it looked as if any ‘ asportation ’ or moving of the property might be regarded not only as a trespass to it but also conversion of it , but this very wide doctrine was restricted to a principle that the dealing with the goods must amount to a denial of the owner 's title . |
| 12 | For example , so detailed was the Texas Instruments integrated circuit catalogue that at one time it was the standard specification reference work for electronic component buyers . |
| 13 | The same reasoning , I suspect , saw to it that at one time you could n't get olives , only peanut and crisps , in smart bars in Spain , because olives were what peasants ate . |
| 14 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 15 | I believe that at one time he was the Prime Minister 's press officer and , indeed , worked in his office . |
| 16 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |
| 17 | So much so that at one point she was actually investigated by the Inquisition — in its mildest form — who were however unable to discipline or control her life . |
| 18 | To Joan , he confessed that he was ‘ not sure ’ so often that at one point she left the boat , determined to have the child on her own . |
| 19 | He commented with amazement that the charge was supposed to be entirely arbitrary and that at one ground it was said to be nil . |
| 20 | Some candidates leave the examination room complaining that at one stage they remembered a case , but later forgot to cite it . |
| 21 | Roy also revealed that at one stage they went to local paramilitaries to ask them to leave one young offender alone . |