Example sentences of "one [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the only one I knew this morning like , so fifty miles an hour he said to me He said to me , he said to me turn left at the roundabout there was only one that was marked on the floor , only one an actual erm roundabout with concrete and I drove straight over it |
| 2 | The one I saw this week at Hillier 's Arboretum , Ampfield , near Winchester , was already on the turn , with leaves orange and scarlet amidst clusters of large red haws , much bigger than those you find on wild hawthorns . |
| 3 | The one I had last year is too small — 'cos I 've grown bigger . |
| 4 | But I I 'm wearing them all a little bit longer , except in the the winter cos I ca n't ca n't alter my coat I have got a longer summer coat to wear but the the one I had last year erm all the skirt showed beneath , I could n't walk about like that . |
| 5 | That one I got five days ’ notice for and it was quite nerve-wracking , as there was tons of complicated stuff to learn . |
| 6 | Yeah , well the one I got , I go , one I got five pound off she lives alone and she 's in that flat and everything . |
| 7 | Remember what I did there I got three themes and for each one I got three subthemes so that what you put over to them to the audience are those three themes . |
| 8 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 9 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 10 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 11 | I 've said to you before , it 's the one I receive most letters about , er , I know that it 's drawn extremely finely at this present minute . |
| 12 | This is the cheesy one I bought some beetroot the other day , they had some nice little ones , which I must cook , they were ever so cheap , I 've forgotten how cheap but you know they were really cheap |
| 13 | What happened to the one I did last year ? |
| 14 | Oh we well we enjoyed you being here , Maggi , we enjoyed your company I 'm happy now that was much better than my the one I did last week . |
| 15 | And Sam says , ‘ Well , in the first one I liked this moment , and in the second I liked this . ’ |
| 16 | An empiricist theory of meaning will be one which enshrines this dependence of all language-learning , and thus of all meaningful language , on the evidence of one 's senses . |
| 17 | A new view of war , albeit one which had close links with past ideas , was gradually emerging . |
| 18 | Wayne knew how finicky she could be about place and mood , but this plan was one which had all objections beaten before they could even be raised . |
| 19 | Liza 's car always appeared to be the one which had preferential treatment and although John Carrow , neither approving of nor trusting any lady to tinker about with a machine , begged them all to leave such things as cleaning carburettors to him , it was always Liza 's that got attended to first . |
| 20 | Likewise therefore this appeal is not one which entitles any party to call evidence unless there are exceptional circumstances and leave is given : see M. v. M. ( Minors : Custody Appeal ) [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 404 . |
| 21 | In sum , the Nicaraguan penal system is one which deserves closer examination , not just because of the option it presents for other developing countries . |
| 22 | Here I want to draw attention to an article by Beverle Houston , ‘ Viewing television : the metapsychology of endless consumption ’ , which seems to me to be one of the few serious attempts to theorize television subjectivity , and one which deserves more attention . |
| 23 | Until some genius does so , controversies like the one which surrounded this year 's Mildmay Course at Aintree , are bound to crop up from time to time . |
| 24 | There are those who feel , for instance , that a revolution did take place but not one which achieved positive effects ; or others who dispute the existence of an English revolution but who do not adhere to a neo-conservative interpretation of English history . |
| 25 | Bentham would say that the one which produces more pleasure is the better action , but Mill would say that it need not be , if the quality of the pleasure which is lesser in amount is sufficiently much higher in quality . |
| 26 | The ideal environment has come to be seen as one which offers continual opportunities to maximise learning , and succeeds in engaging the attention and motivation of the individual for as near to 100 per cent of his/her time as possible . |
| 27 | My auntie 's got one which takes six discs in a little box like that . |
| 28 | It would have been impossible to predict the way events developed after October 1917 , and the policy of the Party seemed on numerous grounds to be the most sensible , the only one which went some way to reconciling the need for large economic units ( which , rightly or wrongly , was assumed to be decisive for material progress ) and for democracy , understood as the right of peoples to choose their own State . |
| 29 | Professor W. F. Grimes in his essay ‘ The Archaeology of the Stamford Region ’ in The Making of Stamford suggests that ‘ the inscription on the recently erected pillar that marks the Roman crossing on the Welland ought to be replaced by one which does less violence to the facts as they appear to be . ’ |
| 30 | This question of a more developed central core among the small towns is an important one which requires closer attention . |