Example sentences of "one [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in one telling passage he speaks of his loneliness and of a crushing depression . |
| 2 | Fascinated by the white pines that grow like weeds round Concord , on one memorable occasion he goes after their cones , which grow on their topmost branches : |
| 3 | On one memorable day they made three captures , with Mike rushing exhausted around the forest trying to keep up . |
| 4 | One memorable day I wandered along to a municipal course and sat waiting while they fixed me up with a fourball . |
| 5 | Now that the hand was not naturally and exactly adapted for one specific task it became generally adaptable for just about everything and hence the agency which ultimately controlled the hand was now called on to give it the directions which automatic instinct and locomotive reflexes no longer could . |
| 6 | For one awful moment she feared he would strike her ; instead he looked down at her , his contempt far more painful than a blow . |
| 7 | For one awful moment she had thought he was gone , but those signs of activity proved otherwise . |
| 8 | Nutty looked at Nails and thought for one awful moment he was going to burst into tears . |
| 9 | I said I was coming , anyway and , do you know , for one fabulous moment I thought he 'd stay behind . |
| 10 | Her outstretched hand disturbed a fragment of loose rock , sending it tumbling over the precipice ; for one hideous moment she fancied the entire ledge was on the move and about to hurl her into the chasm . |
| 11 | I do n't mind dancing with girls when it 's for Jamie , though one time with one tall lassie he wanted us both to go outside so he could kiss her . |
| 12 | It then erm , they would , they went out in one complete entity you see and the trolley wires were just taken down . |
| 13 | For one speechless moment she stared up into a pair of devil-dark eyes , then abruptly came to her senses and tried to break away . |
| 14 | And indeed , it was then that I felt a new resolve not to be daunted in respect to the one professional task I have entrusted myself with on this trip ; that is to say , regarding Miss Kenton and our present staffing problems , But that was this morning . |
| 15 | Over the next few days he was never out of the press and in one emotional moment he confided to a journalist that he felt betrayed by Scotland . |
| 16 | During one fiery bout she ripped the telephone out of the wall and smashed it over his head . |
| 17 | As the group was under one unified control it was possible for an employee to be moved around within the group or at least have " his information and knowledge " so transferred making it important that Littlewoods should have protection regarding the whole GUS group . |
| 18 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 19 | One strange discovery we did make scraps of paper bearing the word Raphael . |
| 20 | In one scientific experiment it was found that a daily increase of log of dietary fibre , by the addition of more fruit , vegetables and wholemeal bread to an ordinary Western diet , increased the number of calories excreted in a bowel movement by nearly go . |
| 21 | It is suitable for even the smallest gardens , and if you can only accommodate one daisy-flowered perennial it should be this . |
| 22 | King Alexander ordered me into her retinue ; I got bored and used to listen to her conversations with the one French lady-in-waiting she brought with her , a girl called Marie . |
| 23 | One exciting story we have lined up is called Two Weeks With The Queen , about a boy who comes to England to ask the Queen for help for his dying brother . |
| 24 | If the book does have one central purpose it is to shed light upon the process of the changing system of higher education in Britain , and if it reaches one clear conclusion it is that both Oxford and Cambridge have performed admirably in recent years . |
| 25 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 26 | But there 's one further thing you should know about me before you accept me here . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ One further thing I have learnt from the wench . |
| 28 | One moonlit night they enjoyed a barbecue in a bay on the coast of Ithaca . |
| 29 | No well I did , old , old erm what 's his name now coo dear there was one old boy he , he , he well he union on this Court of Referees and er cos we got to hear of it . |
| 30 | At one interesting moment he reflects on his responsibilities as a teacher in a very serious-minded way : |