Example sentences of "said one [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Green ? ’ said one of the small boys , all of whom had been following the conversation as closely as the men . |
| 2 | ‘ Hoskyns ’ , said one of the astringent colleagues who disapproved of him , ‘ went to Berlin and they muddled his mind and when he came back he could never get it unmuddled . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He does n't know , ’ said one of the other men , smiling thinly as he watched the agent struggle . |
| 4 | ‘ Trying to get himself noticed , I suppose , ’ said one of the other girls , and an older woman said angrily , ‘ Churchill in charge ! |
| 5 | So she said that big girl ! oh I think I 'm getting it so I said , but I know you used to talk about it , and I said here we go ! and her I did n't know the others , but Tom said one of the other things is a it 's this girl , but I said no she 's got a and then she said and I , and I thought that 's a big , I did n't know ! |
| 6 | She said one of the main problems facing her would be the reorganisation of local government . |
| 7 | ‘ We thought we were never going to make it , ’ said one of the rescued people recovering in hospital afterwards . |
| 8 | Neighbours said one of the arrested men moved into a flat just before Christmas and lived with a woman presumed to be his wife and two sons in their mid-teens . |
| 9 | Aberystwyth lifeboat secretary David Jenkins said one of the missing men was wearing a wetsuit but the other two were thought to be wearing shirts . |
| 10 | ‘ He unshackled us from the formality we had started to develop ’ , said one of the top staff in the Research Department . |
| 11 | Witnesses said one of the distraught mothers cried out : ‘ Where 's my baby , where 's my baby ? ’ |