Example sentences of "one [prep] [pron] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the firing stopped , 13 Catholic had been killed and 29 wounded , one of whom would die several weeks later . |
| 2 | The Churchill Bill in 1986 included a list of proscribed depictions any one of which would attract a conviction for obscenity irrespective of context or effect on the viewer . |
| 3 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
| 4 | The delight of the Gloucester supporters was in no way diminished by the fact that Barnes had missed three easy kicks at goal , any one of which would have wrapped up the game for Bath . |
| 5 | Every now and then one of them would stand up on the sofa and trample restlessly round like a dog resettling itself into its sleeping place . |
| 6 | These events hastened moves towards a formal military alliance of the Western powers , and in April 1949 , 12 ( later 15 ) powers signed the North Atlantic Treaty , which set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) under which the signatories agreed that an attack on any one of them would lead to whatever action was deemed necessary , including the " use of armed force " ( CORE , pp. 85–6 ) . |
| 7 | Any one of them would bring in a good profit . |
| 8 | Any one of them would shove an ice-pick in her back , sunny side up , if there was the slightest chance of her saying a word . |
| 9 | ‘ Shelley was elevated to the Bible this morning , ’ one of them would whisper to the other , but they were fond of Mabel and would never hurt her . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh man , I 've had these pants on so long , there are potatoes growing in them , ’ one of them would start off . |
| 11 | Any one of them would love to take away the £1,000 winner 's cheque , won last year by Bristol Amalgamation , but first they 'll have to beat the other hopefuls on what could be a bumper match . |
| 12 | Ruddock , already talking of retirement as he was led , still numb with disbelief , into the night , knew one of them would pay the ultimate price . |
| 13 | He hoped that only one of them would accompany Taheb and himself to the door , and he hoped that person would be Nephthys . |
| 14 | Now , if you consider all possible ways in which the rocks of Mont Blanc could have been thrown together , it is true that only one of them would make Mont Blanc as we know it . |
| 15 | I am sure that every one of them would want that extra money to come to West Yorkshire , as I do . |
| 16 | ‘ I was afraid one of them would stay , ’ he said . |
| 17 | In each test , one of them would don a mask painted with either normal-sized eyes or extra-large ones , and then walk directly towards a basking iguana . |
| 18 | The feeling in the dressing rooms after the first round was that one of them would collect the Cup . |
| 19 | Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over . |
| 20 | Er one of them would melt . |
| 21 | So the moment the shout was heard , one of them would rush and then try to provide what was wanted on the instant . |
| 22 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 23 | Each time he tried to overtake , one of them would signal and pull out . |
| 24 | Reversing the polarity of both thrusters would bring the vessel to a rapid halt ; swapping the polarity of just one of them would let it turn on a sixpence . |
| 25 | Indeed one of them would insist on crossing the road rather than walk past the animal . |
| 26 | I am sure one of them would afford you the protection that you seek . |
| 27 | Perhaps one of them would allow her to see more clearly : the ghost in the land , or the child that she had been , or the old dog , or the rooks in the tall trees , or the woman … |
| 28 | Often one of them would faint and be left prostrate until the end . |
| 29 | One of them would come and talk to me as I sat beside Aunt Louise , and discuss her with me as if she were a child . |
| 30 | for a glass of wine and a chat , but only one of them would come . |