Example sentences of "be [prep] one [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d . |
| 2 | I ordered Andrew one , Andrew has been after one for a long time . |
| 3 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 4 | … And I think you 've also got to have people who do bear in mind that they 're about one of the few parts of the authority that are in the forefront of the people and are basically representing the authority . |
| 5 | Then in answer to Merrill 's raised eyebrows , ‘ They 're from one of the children 's homes . |
| 6 | They 're from one of the country Women 's Institutes , and they 're coming to check out the suitability of the bush walk for a much larger party — most of them elderly . |
| 7 | And Stromness accents no quite so easily picked out as Kirkwall but you know that they 're from one of the two towns anyway usually . |
| 8 | You can get free prescriptions if you 're in one of the two groups of people shown below . |
| 9 | You can get help if you 're in one of the three groups of people shown below . |
| 10 | If you need new glasses because your sight has changed , and you 're in one of the three groups of people shown on pages 10–11 , the optician will give you an NHS voucher to help pay for them . |
| 11 | You can get NHS vouchers for glasses if you 're in one of the four groups of people shown below . |
| 12 | you 're in one of the two groups of people shown on page 13 . |
| 13 | You can get free NHS wigs and fabric supports or help towards the cost if you 're in one of the two groups of people shown below . |
| 14 | From 1 April 1989 you can get help for milk and vitamins if you 're in one of the groups of people shown below . |
| 15 | If you 're on one of the cruising courses you 'll be sleeping aboard your yacht . |
| 16 | You and Pa are like one of a kind , if you ask me — he believes in miracles , you believe in magic . |
| 17 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 18 | He saw a vast patch of blood and guessed that the ship must have been in one of the many petty skirmishes which took place at sea , for ships of various nations , Norway , Denmark , England , Scotland and France used these waters for fishing , trade and piracy . |
| 19 | We used we used to have someone who we used to know who 'd been in one of the big houses . |
| 20 | I 've been in one of the houses , that 's how I know it was big , before it was done up . |
| 21 | ‘ But he seemed genuinely interested , particularly when I told him I 'd been round one of the stations on a Come & See tour . |
| 22 | In this century , of all centuries , with the unprecedented brutality of its warfare , with its invention of indiscriminate bombing , with its Hiroshima and its Nagasaki , everyone is in a position to understand Deuteronomy and Joshua , and by a most terrible irony the Jews , after the Holocaust , are in one of the best positions of all . |
| 23 | If you are sick and are in one of the excluded groups , you will be advised so that you can claim State Sickness Benefit instead . |
| 24 | The RAF says the Russians are in one of the worst possible places in the world for a rescue but they have to give it a try . |
| 25 | The RAF says the Russians are in one of the worst possible places in the world for a rescue but they have to give it a try . |
| 26 | Erm as I say he was a he was brilliant man er I mean we all we I 'm about one of the last of the ones that were taught under him . |
| 27 | Mobile users can only use it to make outgoing calls , and must be near one of the 8,000-plus Rabbit base stations dotted across the country . |
| 28 | The secret licensing deal is believed to be with one of the following three : Sun Microsystems Inc , Microsoft Corp or Kaleida Inc . |
| 29 | Might be from one of the holidays |
| 30 | There he was expected to be in one of the top three places — and first is better than third ! |