Example sentences of "one [noun] [pron] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senna capitalised on the absence of Mansell , the one driver who could have beaten the Brazilian and wrapped up the world championship in Prost 's favour . |
| 2 | With one blow I could wipe that expression and the flesh that paints it right from their skulls . |
| 3 | I earned a few sous so I became more fantastical , maintaining I had met Brahmins who killed themselves on funeral pyres ; men with monkeys ’ heads and leopards ' bodies ; giants with only one eye and one foot who could run so fast they could only be caught if they fell asleep in the lap of a virgin . |
| 4 | One mistress I could ignore — but he 's now on his sixth . |
| 5 | Under one roof you could buy food , clothes and electrical goods and park just outside . |
| 6 | The wind took ther flames all down one side which could lead to a collapse . |
| 7 | The wind took ther flames all down one side which could lead to a collapse . |
| 8 | They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution . |
| 9 | There was only one photograph it could have been — the picture of John that accompanied our messages . |
| 10 | And I could have given you a bad one Dr I could have given you a good one . |
| 11 | B.F.G. Paver , later to become chairman of the Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation , had the idea of bringing several African newspapers under one management which could ensure unified policy and guidance . |
| 12 | Here was one investigation she could do on her own . |
| 13 | ‘ One evening I could stand it no longer . |
| 14 | There was only one place they could scour that did not need a search warrant : TV London . |
| 15 | There was only one place she could go to . |
| 16 | There are many reasons why , in the early nineteenth century , different considerations would intrude on the modelling of a dissected female body rather than that of a male , but one conclusion we could draw from these figures is that the human norm is male , and the only reason to look at female bodies is for that which makes them female , i.e. the reproductive system . |
| 17 | There Was only one conclusion I could come to : heavier baits and indicators were too heavy for the bream to carry away with the bait sucked to the edge of their lips , so they had to grip with their lips to manage it . |
| 18 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't want to make too much of it though , as if there was only one person we could want . |
| 20 | Freddie had never liked her , but he knew at once that she might be the one person who could give him valuable assistance with his research . |
| 21 | And most were convinced that if there was any one person who could testify to what the pop goddess looked like on waking up , it would be Jason . |
| 22 | One person who could gain out of yesterday 's events is Kenneth Clarke . |
| 23 | There was one person who could help . |
| 24 | If there was just one person I could talk to it would n't be so bad . ’ |
| 25 | The one person I could talk to was Pat and she was great . |
| 26 | I have already been given several different figures , and was told by one person I could have 50 × 12″ fish because I have a good filter . |
| 27 | ‘ For years I believed I did n't have even one person I could call family , ’ he said . |
| 28 | There was only one person she could have happily shared her home with and that was Daphne Bleech-Palmer . |
| 29 | There was only one person she could turn to . |
| 30 | Avril knew of one person she could turn to for support — Peter Spencer . |