Example sentences of "one [pron] have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's their last song , the one everyone has been waiting for , it 's their biggest hit — it 's a hysterical cock-up . |
| 2 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
| 3 | That 's the one I 've been looking for ! |
| 4 | ‘ The niece , the one I 've been telling you about . |
| 5 | The one I 've been telling you all about . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 7 | the one I have been looking for |
| 8 | The moral common to these stories is one I have been emphasising throughout this discussion . |
| 9 | ‘ You must be the one , ’ said the young woman , ‘ You must be the one I have been waiting for , who must release me from enchantment . |
| 10 | It is in islands like the one I have been talking of that one can best speak to the emergent nations about their problems in a relaxed , a hospitable and an egalitarian atmosphere , and against the background of a shared experience . |
| 11 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 12 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 13 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 14 | The one you 've been looking for for ages ? |
| 15 | But do ask when you get back to the branch , because it samples claims that Abbey has , have had , erm , it reiterates the statistics that you 've just heard , the likelihood of somebody suffering with cancer , heart attacks , strokes etcetera , it er , gives you the ages er , if you choose , write in statistics , the one you 've been listening to . |
| 16 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 17 | When she changed schools , however , the maths A level course was different from the one she 'd been following at her old school , but the new teacher expected her to catch up immediately . |
| 18 | She was the one who had been knitting . |
| 19 | Her dark grey eyes in her pale face had the look of one who had been crying fairly often and recently . |
| 20 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 21 | I shall work in , because I mean I 'm the one who 's been pushing to get them on this . |
| 22 | ‘ So you 're the one who 's been making nuisance calls to Brown Owl ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've just found these under a board in your room , Spencer , I think they will prove that I am not the one who 's been defrauding the company . ’ |
| 24 | He does n't talk to me much now because I 'm afraid I 've been the one who 's been tipping him out of the church when he 's smoking . |
| 25 | And he 's another one who 's been admiring you from afar . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Please do n't think that you are the only one who has been trying to suppress your feelings , ’ she said at last , plumping for simplicity . |
| 27 | Today , commenting on the Labour leadership election , claims that ‘ The only one who has been talking sense is John Prescott . |
| 28 | No doubt it has been so used by the unknown one who has been arranging the thefts . |
| 29 | The one we 've been waiting for ever since we found the Worm . ’ |
| 30 | You are the one we have been waiting for . ’ |