Example sentences of "according [prep] one account " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to one account , by the time it hit Villequier , it was a wall of water several metres high moving at fifteen miles per hour . |
| 2 | According to one account , Moorcroft caught a fever and died near Ladakh ( now in north-western Afghanistan ) in 1825 , while Smith says he was murdered on 27 August 1825 , ‘ doubtless by the ‘ cup of medicated tea ’ that he had so frequently described as being his destined end' . |
| 3 | Tea dances , where gentlemen could meet ladies , were reintroduced at the Waldorf Hotel in London , where a quartet was led , according to one account , by Mrs Strevens on saxophone . |
| 4 | the device remained popular for a century after its invention , finding particular favour in France , where , according to one account , it sold so quickly at a fair in Paris that the stallholder was hustled out of town by the young men of the city who saw their favourite quarry rapidly being locked away . |
| 5 | According to one account , he went to the catering tent where the crew were having breakfast , and shook the centre pole fiercely , loudly claiming that this was going to cost Preminger plenty . |
| 6 | According to one account , the explosion caused a tidal wave I 65 feet high . |
| 7 | According to one account , the Cornishmen felt that the affairs of the North were too remote to interest them . |