Example sentences of "the [indef pn] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously you 've never heard the one about a friend in need . |
| 2 | Joseph II will always be remembered for finding ‘ too many notes ’ in Die Entfuhrung ; and our own Queen has an almost comparable claim on immortality if the story is to be believed that when asked to attend a performance of Figaro , she replied : ‘ Is that the one about the pin ? ’ |
| 3 | It is , of course , the one about the pin . |
| 4 | ‘ Drink up , ’ said the darts club wit , ‘ and I 'll tell you the one about the girl who married the sailor . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Have you heard the one about the three-legged sailor ? ’ piped Bunty Abercrombie . |
| 6 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 7 | ‘ The one about the Cumaean Sibyl . |
| 8 | Have you heard the one about the two Scottish footballers who were condemned to death in Panama ? |
| 9 | DID YOU hear the one about the parachutist who landed in a field but was n't sure of his whereabouts ? |
| 10 | I 'd write down last night 's dream , and then I 'd write down that recurring one , the one about the cave with the echoing voices . |
| 11 | Urban Myths ( Virgin , £3.99 ) is a fun little stocking-filler of more than 200 tall tales that stretch truth to breaking point — like the one about the poodle in the microwave . |
| 12 | or is yours the one about the Dock Road ? |
| 13 | ‘ Has anybody heard the one about the Maniak Chieftain and the six-weeks-dead camel corpse ? ’ |
| 14 | HAVE you heard the one about the Englishman , the Irishman and the Yank ? |
| 15 | Have you heard the one about the EastEnders stars who are forced to provide their own fags for smoking scenes ? |
| 16 | He told her the one about the grand lady and the taxi driver who was reluctant to take her and her poodle home in his cab in case the dog wet the seat . |
| 17 | Did you hear the one about the Russian soldiers on parade ? |
| 18 | Right , well that 's good , erm , and , so in , in relation to the A G M erm we did , we were asked about putting in motion 's erm , are you having to leave the one about the press after what John said ? |
| 19 | ‘ The one about the house . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The one about the poor African boy . ’ |
| 21 | The other nightmare he remembered in detail was the one about the Black Death . |
| 22 | In English , the most obvious examples of this are the cliched openings of jokes like ‘ Have you heard the one about the … ? ’ or personal anecdotes : ‘ Listen ! |
| 23 | Heard the one about the guy from Heaton Mersey ? |
| 24 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 25 | He did not feel hungry , and the alcohol sent his imagination soaring into the smoky roof beams , so that he lost the thread of the story Ratagan was telling him — the one about the Dwarf and the Firewood , he thought muzzily . |
| 26 | Like the one about the army camp demonstration ? ’ |
| 27 | He pointed to the yellow sign — the one about the driver 's helplessness in the face of any bill larger than five . |
| 28 | It 's like something on a television thing , Crossroads maybe , or General Hospital , or the one about the women in prison . " |
| 29 | HEARD the one about the Dutchman , the Ukrainian and the two Englishmen ? |
| 30 | Did you hear the one about the rabbi who sneaks out of the synagogue on Shabbos to play a secret game of golf when he should have been praying ? |