Example sentences of "he [vb past] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd like to see him hit one of those bloody kites . |
| 2 | There before him stood one of the tallest , thinnest men he had ever seen outside a circus . |
| 3 | He made one of his jokes , something about dry-rot and woodworm . |
| 4 | Victor asked , eyes squinting as he made one of his instant character assessments which were rarely wide of the mark . |
| 5 | There was great pride in his stance and he had a strange and frightening way of pulling his head right back over his body when he made one of his series of calls . |
| 6 | He made one of his expostulatory noises , seldom employed but powerful , and looked at her carefully from ten feet away in the water , lifting his spectacles to the bridge of his nose and then having to peer under them because they were crusted with salt , raising his head rather merrily , like a sea lion balancing a ball on its snout . |
| 7 | When he made one of his rare , shapely jokes , they gave her a flash of great pleasure — a passing reassurance that life was good after all — and then an experience of despair and palsy . |
| 8 | " I do n't know why I came , I ca n't possibly tell them , " she thought as she watched the tiny man , perched up high as he circled meticulously round about on his chosen futureless employment , shouting : " Wor'-oss , Wor'-oss " to the dogs that followed him , as faithfully as seagulls follow a plough , when he made one of his grand and speedy turns . |
| 9 | During the debate on the Exchange Rate Mechanism on 23 October 1990 , he made one of his lengthier contributions . |
| 10 | We went quietly up to the top floor , where he unlocked one of the small black doors . |
| 11 | He unlocked one of the desk drawers , and brought out a battered tin cashbox . |
| 12 | Then , for the eighteen months until March 1931 , he experienced one of the roughest passages which has been the lot of any party leader this century . |
| 13 | Jim Hill , chief inspector at Dundee had no idea just how far afield one of his Salas desk diaries would travel when he passed one of his ( very limited ) yearly supply to Independent Financial Adviser C E Heath . |
| 14 | ‘ Would madam please excuse me , ’ he said and walked over to a filing cabinet , shrugging exaggeratedly as he passed one of his colleagues . |
| 15 | He produced one of the officials as proof . |
| 16 | During the summer of 1521 he produced one of his writings entitled ‘ In Defence of the Seven Sacraments , ’ exposing the heresies of the German Protestant , Martin Luther , and he dedicated the writing to Pope Leo X , from whence the King was known as ‘ The Defender of the Faith ’ . |
| 17 | He produced one of his rare smiles and came back to his chair . |
| 18 | He produced one of the most remarkable designs of his day . |
| 19 | Then when he took to chasing he produced one of the best performance by an Irish horse at Cheltenham when going down narrowly to Garrison Savannah in the 1990 Sun Alliance Novices Chase — and Garrison Savannah the following won the Gold Cup and finished second in the National . |
| 20 | He sold one of Derain 's paintings for a thousand francs to a Norwegian dealer and was able to offer Modigliani a contract . |
| 21 | As was his normal practice he sold one of the hire cars when it was no more use to the business . |
| 22 | We used , father , after he got motorized , he sold one of them to a man named at Fordham . |
| 23 | He became one of the first football commentators on radio , copying the urgent , excitable American style of the ‘ gee-whizzers ’ , earning himself the nickname of ‘ By Jove ’ Allison on the way . |
| 24 | In 1929 , he became one of the ragazzi di Via Panisperna — the street where Fermi 's ‘ kids ’ carried out their own experiments under the master in their own under-financed lab . |
| 25 | When he was tried by a University Court which still had the theoretical right to condemn its students to death , he was ‘ allowed ’ to escape to America where he became one of the United States ' greatest surgeons . |
| 26 | Born in 1121 , son of Frederick , Duke of the German territory of Swabia , he became one of the most powerful and famous of the medieval emperors . |
| 27 | He arranged parties and expeditions for inspecting churches and old buildings both in London and in the country ; he became one of the public advocates of the Gothic style for modern buildings ; he caught at every opportunity of designing a lodge or a farmhouse or any other building . |
| 28 | And so he became one of Tukaram 's disciples . |
| 29 | Intelligent and articulate he became one of the driving forces in relaunching the fortunes of the Bègles club . |
| 30 | The first Grand Theogonist was Johann Helsturm , and he became one of the most powerful men in the whole land , with many thousands of loyal followers . |