Example sentences of "it [vb past] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 2 | His private life centred on a happy marriage , ‘ steady as an ocean liner ’ in his biographer 's phrase , to a childhood friend ; it produced one daughter . |
| 3 | It made one manufacturing company re-order its priorities substantially . |
| 4 | It involved one prisoner who was recaptured soon afterwards . |
| 5 | A future bishop , Launcelot Fleming , went to the lectures and was enthralled ; but the class ran a sweepstake ; if Hoskyns said theme it scored one mark , if he said ultimate theme it scored ten marks . |
| 6 | It happened one day when I ran out of petrol and this girl came along . |
| 7 | It happened one day that the master went away upon his business . ) |
| 8 | • Clark Gable , on the other hand , caused vest sales to drop drastically when he took off his shirt in ‘ It Happened One Night ’ , to reveal a completely bare torso . |
| 9 | It happened one night when Derek and I were down there . |
| 10 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 11 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 12 | More than any other film , It Happened One Night had pointed the way forward , but , greatly to the surprise of many critics , problem films kept on appearing . |
| 13 | Exemplifying the way that lazy speaking leads to lazy writing ( nothing to do with dialect , this ) it began one sentence : ‘ Whever as a mid-day snack or an evening bite ’ Whether it meant to put it like this is unlikely . |
| 14 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 15 | It began one morning at breakfast in the days when I was still a bachelor and Tristan and I were taking our places at the mahogany dining table . |
| 16 | It hit one house before crashing into the hallway of Debbie 's 400-year-old home in Donyatt , Somerset . |
| 17 | Rather , it represented one part of a very particular period in British history , and as such was ‘ one aspect of the mid-twentieth century rapprochement between the feudal paternalism of Tory Democracy and the Fabian centralism of Social Democracy ’ ( Gyford , 1985a , p. 88 ) . |
| 18 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 19 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 20 | It took one bounce and rolled right into the hole for birdie . |
| 21 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 22 | each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done . |
| 23 | So , if an exemption clause was part of the contract and if on its wording it excused one party from a given liability , then the court had to give effect to the clause , i.e. that party ( usually the seller ) had a valid defence . |
| 24 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
| 25 | It had one advantage of which we were aware . |
| 26 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 27 | In his conference speech Mr Fowler attacked Labour 's reviewed industrial relations policy , saying it had one aim : to make strikes easier . |
| 28 | But it had one thing missing — a proper paper . |
| 29 | This operation ( 1960 ) seriously delayed him , for it left one eye permanently damaged , and he was in the Purey-Cust nursing home by the minster in York and then had a convalescence of several weeks . |
| 30 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |