Example sentences of "one [prep] [adj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital . |
| 2 | They were fed up with three-door cars , which ruled out one of three they considered at the time — the Vauxhall Nova , although this is now available in five-door . |
| 3 | It took as long again for their theories to be discredited , despite the fact that almost none of their Hollywood idols would agree that they were the sole auteur of the films they made ; while the greatest weakness of their belief was that the most flawed work by one of their preferred film-makers was of more interest than a major piece by one of those they did not rate . |
| 4 | A stronger indication still of the difference between sense-qualifiers and referent-qualifiers is that the former examples will remain odd even when the relevant noun is indicated by the context ( yet there will be no problem with the referent-qualifiers ) : ( 15 ) that stranger is a total one the kid was a mere one ( 16 ) his hut is a rudimentary one the tree felled was a deciduous one Again we may note that the other pair of sense-qualifying adjectives from example ( 1 ) do not sound odd when used with an indefinite head : ( 17 ) a lawful one the distant one but this is not surprising because they are adjectives with more than one meaning ; in one of these they are ordinary referent-qualifiers and hence they may quite freely occur in ( 17 ) with a presumption that the referent-qualifying meaning is the one desired . |
| 5 | Take one of these they 'll make you feel better oh no do n't this is |
| 6 | Instead of the screams of starving men , there were prayers , and the prayers passed into silence as one by one they died of starvation a few yards away from food . |
| 7 | One by one they had slipped out until now there were only a few still clinging to the broomstick . |
| 8 | One by one they were closed , and again many people were out of work — unemployed . |
| 9 | One by one they climbed in , Delaney first , Nell in the middle , with Andrevitch bringing up the rear . |
| 10 | A few brave citizens protested when Bangler refused to call free elections , but one by one they ‘ disappeared ’ , leaving the evil politician with a free hand — until now ! |
| 11 | One by one they return and try to remember the story and relate it to the audience . |
| 12 | One by one they have just sunk to the bottom of the tank without any sign of ill health . |
| 13 | One by one they finished the summary and sat back . |
| 14 | But , one by one they left , for home or elsewhere . |
| 15 | One by one they picked off Iraq 's mobile Scud missiles and , gradually , Scuds stopped reaching their targets . |
| 16 | One by one they came down . |
| 17 | Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open . |
| 18 | One by one they stepped out on me . |
| 19 | And Beuno talked and talked , and one by one they all laughed . |
| 20 | One by one they came , and we on board Viking found it possible to grab their long shaggy fleeces and hoist them over the gunwale . |
| 21 | One by one they emerged down the steps onto the sands , glowing . |
| 22 | One by one they lay their burden of eggs |
| 23 | One by one they sauntered out , or clustered together for safety in great rushes : all in theoretical navy and white , but with such imaginative variation in those two colours and where and how placed , and in what fabric , as to make their apparel singularly unalike . |
| 24 | One by one they are screaming at the top of their voices , like naughty adolescent vixens . |
| 25 | She made no attempt to wipe them away and one by one they dripped from her nose and chin on to the hands that lay folded in her lap . |
| 26 | breed ; and one by one they go missing . |
| 27 | One by one they were brought to Rome and , as opportunity arose , they were required to take an oath of obedience to the Holy See " super negotio imperii " , " on the matter of the empire " . |
| 28 | One by one they struggled to their feet . |
| 29 | He was four or five lengths away from the next plane when one by one they angled into the quilted greyness . |
| 30 | One by one they jounced over the ruts , and formed up in pairs . |