Example sentences of "of one [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said , ‘ Lets have that coat , I 'll put it in front of one of the radiators . ’ |
| 2 | Theodora drew rein on top of one of the dunes . |
| 3 | He had turned to look at her , slipping off his coat as he did so and tossing it carelessly over the back of one of the armchairs . |
| 4 | ‘ I know your brother by sight , big built like you , Cleg , but with greying hair , lives at the end of one of the courts , does n't he ? ’ |
| 5 | In the corner of one of the courts a small figure of Queen Nefertari is depicted standing by the feet of a colossus . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's all a confusing mess at the moment , ’ confessed an executive of one of the companies involved . |
| 7 | A female employee of one of the companies included in the report said , ‘ I do n't know very many women who 've got high up … |
| 8 | Visiting the Head Office of one of the companies that used his services in response to an urgent summons was one of them . |
| 9 | The finance director of one of the companies says he believes that the productivity increases attributable to IT are coming to an end : ‘ Auditors are getting more productive — but it can only go to a certain level . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I put a spanner in the works of one of the companies that later merged to form Spinward . |
| 11 | Indeed , ‘ sovereignty ’ in this sense , is rare , as a quality of one of the institutions of a constitution as opposed to the constitution itself . |
| 12 | erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on . |
| 13 | Daniel son of Nicholas of Newcastle , husband of one of the co-heiresses , was appointed by them to perform the duties of Forest warden until he was succeeded in 1226 by Thomas of Stratton , husband of another co-heiress . |
| 14 | He became the lover of one of the ladies , Tarquinia Molza , and in his Eighth Book of five-part madrigals ( Venice , 1586 ) he published two examples of what have been described as forerunners of the concerto da camera , ‘ Vezzosi augelli ’ and ‘ Non e si denso velo ’ . |
| 15 | a paragraph at the end of one of the chapters and , I ca n't remember the exact words but in , what it meant was that for the parents who do restrain the children from what they watch |
| 16 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 17 | Cicognara 's notable library was acquired by the Vatican in 1824 and forms the topic of one of the talks at the conference 's first session , which is on ‘ The History of Art Libraries : L. Cicognara and his models ’ . |
| 18 | She follows me into the room and plants herself square in the middle of one of the sofas , leaving me to pace back and forth across the thick carpet while I deliver my diatribe . |
| 19 | Fifty two per cent of reservoirs showed expression of one of the markers and not the other ( Table IV ) . |
| 20 | She was unusually silent , but the group of scientists at the tables could hear her muttering to herself as she punished the books at the end of one of the bays . |
| 21 | He stuck his head out of one of the windows of the coach , and roared protests at the policemen who were desperately trying to cope with the traffic confusion . |
| 22 | I have also lifted the catch , both on the outside and inside of one of the windows . ’ |
| 23 | But , yes , it was in front of the Ministry of Defence , and he 'd jumped out of one of the windows . |
| 24 | There was a good , steady wage , and a proper job was more than she had ever hoped for when she 'd first noticed the advertisement written in felt-tip in the corner of one of the windows . |
| 25 | The sooner I can get the air-conditioning on , the better , ’ he said , taking off his own jacket before going over to inspect the rather antiquated unit , set in the lower frame of one of the windows . |
| 26 | Christien plays Roger Vandervent , the teenage son of one of the families who has a crush on his father 's mistress . |
| 27 | The heads of one of the sections involved agreed to disband yesterday , hours before one of their men , shot dead by the IRA , was buried . |
| 28 | Somebody was sitting in a corner of one of the window-seats , behind a curtain . |
| 29 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 30 | Suzanne , I could call myself Suzanne : it was the name of one of the actresses Dad had brought to stay at our house for a week because there were bedbugs at her lodgings . |