Example sentences of "one [prep] those [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He is one of those players you want in your side because you know he will be superb week-in , week-out . |
| 2 | All Blacks coach Laurie Mains said : ‘ Grant is one of those players you have a lot of confidence in . |
| 3 | Every one of those horses he has to look round for fo all four feet up . |
| 4 | On one of those weekends she had met Stock , a photographer who did a lot of work for one of the newspaper colour supplements , though always under assumed names , for tax purposes . |
| 5 | Latin 's not one of those languages you can teach with tape-recorders and acting little plays . |
| 6 | ‘ Every time I sell one of those things I 'm committing a crime against humanity , ’ he had told him . |
| 7 | I 've thought about it but erm it 's another one of those things I , I guess I keep putting off to the er a little bit later . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's one of those things you silly young women get . ’ |
| 9 | I ALWAYS thought lesbianism was one of those things you had to be born with , like the ability to do the splits . |
| 10 | Being in the charts is one of those things you always dream of but now I 've done a few of those things already . |
| 11 | Training logs are one of those things you simply do or do n't take to . |
| 12 | It was one of those things you know , when you get called names . |
| 13 | At first I did n't know what it was , then I realised it was what Doreen called a ‘ floppy disc ’ , one of those things you store your words with on a computer . |
| 14 | One of those things you forget about when away , then meet with surprised pleasure on a return . |
| 15 | No , cos it , eh , a , it 's one of those things you already know how to do it or you do n't , and he 's pretty good though , I , know I ca n't , I 've read the instructions and I put that one , that one loose in the bottom and this one |
| 16 | Personally I 'd rather buy a pack of cards and play the game for real , or buy one of those magazines you find on the top shelf of the newsagents . |
| 17 | ‘ Trouble is I 've an urgent appointment with one of those VIPs you mentioned . |
| 18 | Fastpaced , exciting , and easy enough to get into even if you 're not Mr Shoot-'Em-Up 1992 , this is one of those games you have to keep playing to get that little bit further . |
| 19 | ‘ Because that 's one of those questions we could debate for some considerable time . ’ |
| 20 | Like it 's one of those questions you ask people . |
| 21 | I could make a playpen for him and buy him one of those big wooden Arks with all the animals in and I could get one of those bags you carry babies around in like the Indians have had for centuries . |
| 22 | or erm one of those bags you know with all the bits and bobs in |
| 23 | ‘ A few lads staggering out of one of those pubs we heard about . ’ |
| 24 | There was Maria Filippa , however , looking at him through her glasses which had misted up in horror and grief at his outburst , gulping the air like a fish ; she was not like his sister Rosa , not one of those girls he had to protect from their own compulsions , but his own beloved and burdened wife , so reserved in bed that he even regretted her modesty himself , and so far from the whore he was about to call her , he shuddered from head to foot . |
| 25 | Perhaps you could go and fight in one of those wars they 're always having somewhere and lose yourself in the din of battle . |
| 26 | it 's one of those curtains they 're gon na be behind the |
| 27 | character actually , mind you she does er , it looks like one of those programmes you know er , when you do n't want to be sitting in the front row , if she 's going |
| 28 | ‘ And one of those times I must have crossed into someone else 's territory . ’ |
| 29 | was it one of those badges he 's got on the back on the front |
| 30 | One of those tombstones he always has , you know . |