Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had an alley mate , the man on the next machine , who pulled the levers for both of them at one end while William 's grandad pulled for them both at the other . |
| 2 | There were five of them at one table and they were the only ones still outside . |
| 3 | In front of them to one side were the CEGB representatives , led by Lord Silsoe with streamlined efficiency . |
| 4 | He threw himself forward , startling the beasts that were tearing at the prostrate girl on the ground , and arced his sword round with manic strength , tearing the blade through two of them with one swing . |
| 5 | He wrote on various subjects , all of them with one aim in view , namely to keep his name before the public and to make sure that his ideas were not allowed to disappear from circulation . |
| 6 | The crew were all clinging on to the side of the trawler and the last men off , Billy and John took 'em They got hold of them by one leg and they pulled them off . |
| 7 | ‘ It is ironic that the Council 's projects , most of them in one way or another emphasizing the value of local initiative , teacher involvement , school-level decision-making and various innovations in pedagogy such as inter-disciplinary teaching , should lead to heightened activity nationally to control the curriculum . ’ |
| 8 | With the notable exception of Britain most of them in one way or another involved the banks , either directly or through the fashionable device of the crédit mobilier , a sort of industrial finance company which regarded the orthodox banks as insufficiently suited to or interested in industrial financing and competed with them . |
| 9 | I do n't necessarily use all of them in one painting . |
| 10 | It is difficult to sum up the succession of kings and sub kings who schemed and killed their way to brief spells of power — eight of them in one century — or to keep in steady perspective the shifting boundaries and aspirations of petty earldoms and self-proclaimed kingdoms . |
| 11 | Advanced course units would then be taken , with a combination of twelve of them in one subject area leading to an honours degree , twelve in two subjects to a joint honours , and various other ‘ less demanding combinations ’ to ordinary degrees : |
| 12 | Two of them at one go , two of them in one morning . " |
| 13 | The factory had 25,000 employees , turned out 50,000 new and reconditioned Merlin XX engines , 1,650 of them in one month in 1943 . |
| 14 | 's father was master of her at one stage . |
| 15 | Ferguson , with only six goals to show from United 's last 12 games , has £5m to spend and would be reluctant to pour most of it into one signing . |
| 16 | Behaviour has to be shaped up , bit by bit until the child is able to complete the whole of it as one process . |
| 17 | But only lately have we come to think of it as one body , however large and interconnected it may be . |
| 18 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 19 | Even from her high perch , Ace could n't see all of it at one glance . |
| 20 | you 've got one ninety pence here and you 're spending ninety pence of it on one thing and sixty pence of the same money on another thing . |
| 21 | Wednesday looked suspiciously at the rope then seized hold of it with one hand . |
| 22 | He remained by the table , holding the edge of it with one hand because the table was shaking . |
| 23 | Once there , Ursula poured more gin than tonic into a tumbler and drank at least a quarter of it in one gulp . |
| 24 | He picked up his tankard and drank off half of it in one gulp . |
| 25 | This is an absolute treasure house for any editor or writer unsure of a common foreign phrase , an abbreviation , or the spelling of a tricky name — which means all of us at one time or another . |
| 26 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 27 | The main need , however , is to bring the two sides somehow together , since all of us at one time or another need help from both of them . |
| 28 | But we could n't eat all the curry it was very , both of us at one time , we could have scoffed the lot ! |
| 29 | A little while ago , we heard about something called AIDS , and it 's something that 's terrified most of us in one way or another . |