Example sentences of "one [prep] [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely one of thee needs a drudge ? |
| 2 | There was one of her dandling a baby , and he took it into the kitchen to her . |
| 3 | Foreigners always find that a difficult process — in fact only one of them made a real success of it — and Disraeli possessed what Ezra had been denied — the elasticity and toughness of a good Jew . |
| 4 | One of them made a farewell address : |
| 5 | One of them made a stand for repeal of the Corn Laws , which must have taken some guts in this neck of the woods . ’ |
| 6 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 7 | The men in the smithy seized him ; and one of them took a hammer and drove a nail into the sole of his boot . |
| 8 | But this day I was n't there anyway and er they went into this shop in the , er and they came out , or one of them took a , a fruit cake . |
| 9 | One of them took a handful of the stuff . |
| 10 | One of them wore a kaftan . |
| 11 | One of them wore a hat that dripped water from the brim . |
| 12 | One of them contained a silver sixpence which Frankie turned in his fingers but did not remove in case Sweetheart , in her present bad mood , took it away from him . |
| 13 | One of them bears a close anatomical resemblance to the marble copies we have after the bronze statues of the Tyrannicides by Kritios and Nesiotes which we know were set up in the Agora , the city centre north-west of the Acropolis , in 477 . |
| 14 | One of them activates a secret latch , book shelves swing aside to reveal a flight of descending stone steps . |
| 15 | One of them employs a psychological trick . |
| 16 | They are said to be very fast over the first 40 yards , and the advice offered by the locals is that you should run on a zig-zag course if one of them takes a fancy to you . |
| 17 | The two policemen in the doorway stared in at him , one of them taking a step closer , anxious to rescue their plain clothes colleague from Scott 's attack . |
| 18 | One of them became a cardinal , and , in 1130 , pope — or , as he came to be reckoned , an anti-pope . |
| 19 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 20 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 21 | Of course , we could scatter many billions of spores , thereby reducing the odds , but even so the possibility of even one of them encountering a suitable receiving planet anywhere in the Universe is vanishingly small . |
| 22 | Alternatively if you are trying to use an accent because some members of the wedding party speak like that , get one of them to record a short passage for you on tape and play it over until you have perfected their accent . |
| 23 | Chloe , nine , Leo , seven , and Greg , four , are all keen followers of their father 's career , so how would he react if one of them expressed a wish to take the wheel ? |
| 24 | In January 1991 there were sightings reported off Dubai and — as in 1983 — off Qatar , while at Safaniyah in the Saudi offshore oilfield one of them struck a well platform . |
| 25 | One of them left a couple of minutes later to buy a newspaper . |
| 26 | These sugar units are ‘ sticky ’ ; when one of them meets a matching sugar chain sticking out from the membrane of an adjacent cell , the two recognize each other and become attached . |
| 27 | I behaved with the arrogance of a lady , and when one of them got a little — fresh ? — I pretended to be insulted and amazed that he could compromise his uniform and position that way . |
| 28 | One of them carried a guitar case . |
| 29 | There 's a small black and white set , and I can see two people on it , with one of them waving a hand . |
| 30 | Three rides he had today , for three different trainers , and not one of them had a squeak . |