Example sentences of "one [noun sg] had a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One had a full-time secretarial job , one had a part-time factory job ( for four hours each morning ) , three did part-time cleaning jobs ( two in the evening , one in the morning ) and one housewife had a Saturday job as a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 2 | Swathes of coloured gauze separated silver benches , and a twisting staircase on one side had a cobweb of azure spangles hanging over it . |
| 3 | One girl had a fight and she was down there for weeks . |
| 4 | One type had a timber roof which was supported on two rows of columns which divided the hall into a larger , central area and two narrower , side aisles . |
| 5 | Skiving was not infrequent — the pupils slipping out once the register had been called — and one boy had a job without officially leaving school . |
| 6 | Eighty six of the 87 normal children had an arterial oxygen saturation of greater than 90% ; one child had a saturation of 89.3% . |
| 7 | But one window had a light in it . |
| 8 | One joke had a candidate for the Waffen-SS being asked at the muster whether he was willing to sign on for the duration of the war ; to which , he replied : ‘ No , at first only for twelve years . ’ |
| 9 | The Metropolitan Museum in New York , for example , proudly owned an early Greek bronze horse , which a sharp-eyed administrator on the staff noticed one day had a ridge . |
| 10 | Seventy per cent of patients and one control had a borderline or abnormal number of subareas . |
| 11 | One student had a Citroen Visa , which I immediately assumed was the GTi version — Peugeot 205 kit in a Peugeot 104 chassis — and the sort of lukewarm hatch I can just about afford now . |
| 12 | One woman had a friend who constantly let her down for appointments , a lunch , an evening out , by either not turning up , being very late or changing dates at the last minute . |
| 13 | Only one subject had a feeling of urge at the highest pressure step . |
| 14 | One man had a vision of a railway that would link all the mainline railway termini . |
| 15 | One man had a rucksack , another a white cotton hat , a third an unbuttoned shirt , a fourth , sandshoes . |
| 16 | One man had a shovel . |
| 17 | One project had a waiting list of 20 but now had five empty beds , she said . |
| 18 | At two weeks , however , one patient had a serum bismuth concentration well outside this range ( 44 ng/g ) ; she denied use of any other dismuth medications and the concentration fell to 3 ng/g in the succeeding two weeks . |
| 19 | Only one patient had a titre of 1:1000 . |
| 20 | Three patients had a history of previous bleeding from ulcers of the duodenum or stomach , one patient experienced anastomosal bleeding with a history of gastric resection , one patient had a Dieulafoy 's lesion treated conservatively in another hospital with recurrent bleeding episodes within one year before admission . |
| 21 | Five were smokers but only one drank more than five units of alcohol a week and only one patient had a family history of ulcer disease . |
| 22 | The number of levels ranged from two to five , but only one scheme had a level designed for the lowest ten per cent of attainers . |
| 23 | Formal training was the next step , although the writing was on the wall when one class had a notice displaying ‘ No Basset Hounds ’ ! |
| 24 | He even fell into arrears with his mortgage at a time when he was earning £400,000 a year as chairman of Lonrho , and at one stage had a 300-acre farm and farmhouse , next to his magnificent 14th-century manor house in Somerset , repossessed . |