Example sentences of "he [vb past] one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There before him stood one of the tallest , thinnest men he had ever seen outside a circus . |
| 2 | We went quietly up to the top floor , where he unlocked one of the small black doors . |
| 3 | He unlocked one of the desk drawers , and brought out a battered tin cashbox . |
| 4 | Then , for the eighteen months until March 1931 , he experienced one of the roughest passages which has been the lot of any party leader this century . |
| 5 | He produced one of the officials as proof . |
| 6 | He produced one of the most remarkable designs of his day . |
| 7 | Then when he took to chasing he produced one of the best performance by an Irish horse at Cheltenham when going down narrowly to Garrison Savannah in the 1990 Sun Alliance Novices Chase — and Garrison Savannah the following won the Gold Cup and finished second in the National . |
| 8 | As was his normal practice he sold one of the hire cars when it was no more use to the business . |
| 9 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 10 | In 1929 , he became one of the ragazzi di Via Panisperna — the street where Fermi 's ‘ kids ’ carried out their own experiments under the master in their own under-financed lab . |
| 11 | When he was tried by a University Court which still had the theoretical right to condemn its students to death , he was ‘ allowed ’ to escape to America where he became one of the United States ' greatest surgeons . |
| 12 | Born in 1121 , son of Frederick , Duke of the German territory of Swabia , he became one of the most powerful and famous of the medieval emperors . |
| 13 | He arranged parties and expeditions for inspecting churches and old buildings both in London and in the country ; he became one of the public advocates of the Gothic style for modern buildings ; he caught at every opportunity of designing a lodge or a farmhouse or any other building . |
| 14 | Intelligent and articulate he became one of the driving forces in relaunching the fortunes of the Bègles club . |
| 15 | The first Grand Theogonist was Johann Helsturm , and he became one of the most powerful men in the whole land , with many thousands of loyal followers . |
| 16 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 17 | He became one of the twelve peers of the kingdom , taking his place beside the count of Flanders , the duke of Burgundy and the count of Anjou . |
| 18 | He became one of the first Conceptual artists and among the first to draw his imagery from television , movies , newspapers and advertising . |
| 19 | He was the son of the Vicar of Dent , went to Sedbergh School and later on to Cambridge , where he became one of the most important founders of the present science of geology . |
| 20 | When the uneasy initial co-operation of the authorities was broken by the oath to Joseph ( April 1809 ) Duhesme 's corrupt military government was served by Casanova : a profiteer in identity cards , ransoms , and municipal marketing , an adventurer with a mistress and a mansion , he became one of the richest , as well as the most powerful man , in occupied Barcelona . |
| 21 | Scarcely surprisingly , he became one of the figureheads of the revolution of 1820 . |
| 22 | Even before he became one of the pioneering geneticists , William Bateson ( 1861–1926 ) had abandoned Darwinism and had begun to insist that evolution is driven by discontinuous variations or saltations . |
| 23 | By 1560 , when he was elected alderman , he was already a substantial figure in London , and he became one of the City 's commercial magnates . |
| 24 | Through Selina Hastings , Countess of Huntingdon [ q.v. ] , he became one of the Countess of Walsingham 's chaplains . |
| 25 | He became one of the first Whitworth scholars in 1875 and completed his education at King 's College , University of London . |
| 26 | In 1905 he became one of the founders and first rear-commodore of the Royal Motor Yacht Club . |
| 27 | He had financed Turner 's journey to Venice in 1833 and in 1844 he became one of the four trustees of Turner 's charity for the relief of decayed and indigent artists . |
| 28 | It was after the Revolution that Gould first came to prominence when he became one of the largest suppliers of hemp , pitch , and tar to the Royal Navy ; and in this capacity , immediately before the War of the Spanish Succession , he played an important part in providing the navy with Russian hemp from Archangel in place of the supplies that could no longer be obtained from Riga ( beleaguered by the Russians ) . |
| 29 | After a year on the Economist he became one of the original members of the Conservative Research Department ( 1930–8 ) under its first director , Sir G. Joseph Ball [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | In the wake of Hillier 's retirement in 1882 , he was appointed assistant inspector-general and in 1884 he became one of the country 's four new divisional magistrates , with his headquarters in Athlone . |