Example sentences of "and [verb] [that] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On that occasion he was awed and intrigued ; he hoped and expected that one day he too would share such a look with someone . |
| 2 | ‘ She thanked me for my courtesy and prophesied that one day I would play against Europe 's greatest prince in a game of hazard , and win . |
| 3 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 4 | By 1967 memory transfer labs were back in business again , injecting a variety of brain extracts and claiming many and varied results — one group of researchers for instance trained some rats to press levers for food with their right paw and others with the left , and found that one behaviour could be transferred but not the other ! |
| 5 | ‘ When we got our first serious analysis from the system in January 1992 , there was a minor panic at the amount of sick days reported , although it was not quite so bad when we analysed the figures further and found that one employee 's long-term sickness was affecting the averages . |
| 6 | The only other alternative would be for the court to disregard one of the clauses and hold that one party had , by conduct , accepted the other party 's terms and waived its own , including the provision providing that it should not be taken as accepting any other terms . |
| 7 | Fred would listen patiently until he could stand no more and then depart to the small back yard , where he sat on an upturned tea-chest and vowed that one day he would forget how efficient his kitchen hand was and just do away with her . |
| 8 | Though , on looking across at him , and observing that one eyebrow had ascended aloft at what he must consider was the sharpness of her answer , she realised that she was never likely to get an interview if she did not control her exasperation at his evasive non-answers to most of her questions . |
| 9 | When complete , connect the battery and note that one output assumes a Logic 1 state and the other , a 0 . |
| 10 | On holiday at my parents ' house in Wales , I locked myself into the ground floor bathroom and swore that one day I would be a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion . |
| 11 | It would remind them that young men who carry knives and youngsters who take them to school may lose their temper and find that one stab is enough to kill a school mate or a police officer . |
| 12 | The directors considered this , and decided that one payment only was in order because , although they could find evidence of the donation by the man , they could find no evidence of any donation by the horse . |
| 13 | Perhaps soon , he would meet them both and ask that one question that he longed to ask : Why ? |
| 14 | He sends his work to a tiny literary magazine and hopes that one day one of this screenplays might be published . |
| 15 | Plaintiffs ' solicitors should remember that the range of claimants was extended by the decision of the House of Lords in McLoughlin v O'Brian [ 1982 ] 2 All ER 298 to include , in that case , a wife and mother who suffered nervous shock on seeing her husband and children apparently badly injured in hospital after an accident and learning that one child had died . |
| 16 | The usual practice , therefore , is to take each question individually and mark that one question on every script before going on to the next question . |
| 17 | Like lots of other music mad teeangers Sam , Jim and Ben Turner get together after school , and dream that one day they 'll be famous and play in a rock band . |
| 18 | On the one hand , a half-promise to save a new-born country , and to show that one lot of people may not dispossess another lot merely by virtue of being better armed ; on the other hand , a growing realisation that this could not be achieved without a fight in which an unknown number of young Europeans and Americans would be asked to die in the name of misty-sounding things like compassion and principle . |