Example sentences of "one [adv] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The herring was to the Eastern European Jew what potatoes were to the Irish , which is surprising , for the herring is a salt-water fish and in Russia and Poland one rarely got a glimpse of the sea . |
| 2 | Apart from fuel and servicing , the last one only needed a replacement throttle cable in 38,000 miles . |
| 3 | One just heard a whistle , one said it sounded like a hymn and the third , who was a church woman , claimed she could identify it precisely , ‘ Now the Day is Over' ’ . |
| 4 | I do not know whether this was associated with the fact that no one ever sought a tea meeting with me and that I was relieved of the obligation of conducting a rather spurious theological discussion on the basis of almost total ignorance . |
| 5 | Zephandra Butolphi must have been a civil servant in a previous incarnation : no one ever made a decision alone . |
| 6 | That 's why you meet so many people at parties who are falling over themselves to recommend their accountant , dentist , gardener or solicitor , as if having a good one automatically bestowed a halo of good judgement on the one who found him first . |
| 7 | One also supplied a report entitled ‘ Pan Am Flight 103 ’ , prepared in January 1989 by the intelligence unit of the Lebanese Forces , which had to do mainly with the substance of intercepted telephone calls to and from the Iranian Embassy in Beirut . |
| 8 | If one needed a hotter oven , one simply flicked a switch which directed some extra heat in a downwards direction . |
| 9 | Why 've I 've got a glass and no one else got a glass ? |