Example sentences of "one [vb -s] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Clark had known all along of the military preparations ‘ Musketeer I ’ and ‘ Musketeer II ’ and had been dismayed when Dulles seemed to have aborted them with his Suez Canal Users Club ; and after the Anglo-French meeting in London in September he had put out ‘ a dull communiqué , and no one has the least idea of what big things were abroad' . |
| 2 | In politics outside the magnate class one has the same picture : when one considers which boroughs were represented in fifteenth-century parliaments , one is struck by the contrasting figures from the North and the South : in Wiltshire there were sixteen boroughs and in Sussex twelve ( if one includes the three Cinque Ports which fell within the shire ) , whereas the figures for the three northern shires of Yorkshire , Northumberland and Lancashire were three , one and none respectively . |
| 3 | Whether the issue is education or health , pollution or overseas aid , one sees the same mishmash of self-righteous resentment , sentimentality and wishful thinking providing the same simple answers to every problem , without the slightest reference to the real world . |
| 4 | At first it looks like name-dropping until one finds the same sort of thing in Athenaeus or Aelian . |
| 5 | But this one does the same thing as ever . |