Example sentences of "one of them [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He poured wine into two of the cups and slid one of them across the table so that it was within Sidacai 's reach . |
| 2 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ I hit one of them over the head in the bedroom and then I got going . |
| 4 | The customer services team are rarely seen by customers but maintain close contact with every one of them over the telephone . |
| 5 | The gardens of the Manor Road houses went through to one side of Fair View Road and my cousin pointed out a Nissen Hut in one of them as the garage rented by Mr. Rogers where the fateful taxi had been kept . |
| 6 | In fact , the four cooking apples should have been five , but our continuing cashflow problems meant I had to disguise one of them as the reserve match ball . |
| 7 | Tutilo stood staring in bewilderment from one of them to the other , without understanding , almost without recognition . |
| 8 | The bankruptcy order is settled by the court in Form 6.25 in Schedule 4 to the rules ( r 6.33 ) , see Appendix C , form 32 , and the court must send at least two sealed copies to the official receiver who must send one of them to the bankrupt and cause the order to be entered in the register of writs and orders at the land registry and be advertised in the London Gazette and local newspaper ( r 6.34 ) . |
| 9 | First he returned one of them to the brass container . |
| 10 | I adjusted one of them to the reclining position , lay back in it and closed my eyes . |
| 11 | She held the faded spine of one of them to the light so that she could read the lettering : ‘ Journal of Martin J. Beale 1852–67 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm Loretta Lawson ’ , she said , returning and handing one of them to the American woman . |
| 13 | He just managed to beat one of them to the receiver . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll have one of them with the pink on top . ’ |
| 15 | She married an art dealer , Kenelm , understood to be seriously ill , and conducted daring affairs , one of them on the Metro with her friend Monique 's friend Gianni : |
| 16 | There was one of them on the other side of the street . |
| 17 | He bombarded Burghley with schemes for exploiting Newfoundland in 1585 and 1586 , interestingly proposing the financing of one of them on the tontine principle , but they involved impractical proposals , as the international fishery could not be controlled by any one country except at vast expense . |
| 18 | I used one of them on the |
| 19 | I 'd like one of them for the landing . |
| 20 | The best eye-witness reports came from European officials living in the two important towns of Batavia and Buitenzorg , where there were even some useful scientific recording instruments — one of them at the Batavia town gasworks — and from the officers on board the various vessels that were on passage through the Straits at the time of the eruption . |
| 21 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 22 | They waved them around , chanting ‘ burn the commie , burn the commie ’ until Uncle Sam cuffed one of them around the ear . |
| 23 | Peebles played 18 games for the Ports during an extended loan period , and scored three goals — ironically one of them against the Blues in that 3–0 win on the last day of the season . |
| 24 | It 's hit towards the halfway line , Alan the sole defender for Blackburn at the moment , he plays it to his right , forward it goes to now that 's a good ball down the far side of the field , plenty of er men available , 's one of them inside the penalty area , the cross was n't so good from and it 's gon na run harmlessly behind for a goal kick . |
| 25 | Only two prints remain , one of them in the Permanent Collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art . |
| 26 | And three times since breakfast she found unauthorized people prowling around — one of them in the labor room , no less ! |
| 27 | He punched one of them in the hindquarters ; it moved a pace and grazed on . |
| 28 | ‘ Have n't you ever wanted to chuck one of them in the canal ? |
| 29 | But if these men who had split into two parties were here for some heist or scam , they were being slow about it , for they sat calmly in silence , one of them in the seat next to Jarvis , a dusty-looking , very ordinary , middle-aged man in a voyeur 's dun-coloured raincoat . |
| 30 | ( By 1981 , sixteen States had passed Equal Rights Amendments to their own State Constitutions , only one of them in the South — Arkansas : interestingly , Illinois passed its own , while failing to ratify the Federal amendment . ) |