Example sentences of "found [pron] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found me one day , crying my heart out , and because he was the sort of man he was — kind , sympathetic — I told him . |
| 2 | He was , however , arrested on one occasion and , on another , found himself one of a group of men being attacked in a lavatory by a crowd of youths ( Humphreys 1970 ) . |
| 3 | The newcomer , moreover , does not enter the village as a lone individual who has to win social recognition among the locals in order to make life tolerable-Instead , particularly during the 1950s and 1960s , the newcomers arrived in such large numbers — perhaps due to the building of a new housing estate by a local speculative builder — that the individual ‘ immigrant ’ found himself one of many others whose values , behaviour and life-styles were similarly based upon urban , middle-class patterns of sociability . |
| 4 | And so , about a week after their last direct encounter , she found herself one evening waiting up for him , sitting with a glass of vodka and tonic in the drawing-room , long after Silvia had gone to bed . |
| 5 | Her husband found her one day wearing a rose pinned to her gown that was not from his garden , and guessed it was a gift from her lover . |
| 6 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
| 7 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
| 8 | Egypt is host to thousands of Sudanese students and workers , and most of them appeared to be assembled outside the gates of the embassy when I found it one morning in a leafy street not far from the Nile . |
| 9 | I came out of the orphanage to go and live with my mother and I found myself one of the family of six living in one room , the house was a four roomed house plus a scullery . |