Example sentences of "the one [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | But plasterwork was the one craft he continued all his life . |
2 | you know , in the one case you 're , you 're the representative of court the probation erm officer and they know that if they break the probation or you sort of erm do a bad report on them , maybe they 've got a suspended or something and they 'll , so you know there 's a , and , and you somehow have to handle that |
3 | But the one perfume you really want is freedom . |
4 | The one person it did n't seem eccentric to , because he did n't notice it , was her father . |
5 | And it went without saying that , if he was not prepared to take a risk with his money , he most certainly was not prepared to take a risk which might lose him the one person he could trust . |
6 | The one person I could talk to was Pat and she was great . |
7 | I 've always excused myself-I 've said , I 'm kind and tolerant with everyone else , she 's the one person I ca n't be like that with , and there has to be an exception to the general rule . |
8 | She was the one person I really trusted but I felt she had lied and betrayed me . |
9 | She was the one person I told . |
10 | And trust you to like the one person you can never have , she mused . |
11 | The one person you could n't fool was yourself . |
12 | You will find that I am the one person you can always trust . |
13 | I am the one person you can trust around here . |
14 | Now okay you know the , you know the one person you ca n't do anything for but it 's the way this lass looked you know and then about a week after that I 'm in Princes Street and I always try and er you know buy the , the Issues |
15 | On the spur of the moment , Matilda decided that the one person she would like to confide in was Miss Honey . |
16 | After all , I pointed out , lunch was the one date we had n't yet tried . |
17 | Also now that we 've got UNISON the one union I think they can help but I do think that 's what needs to be done , because they 're doing the same with the hospital as , as now doing with the pits even after the closure campaign . |
18 | Where batch production is concerned , the Woodward analysis distinguishes four types of batch production compared with the one type we have described . |
19 | After all , there seems to be no point in spending many hours carefully making someone a set of pink designs if that is the one colour they ca n't abide ! |
20 | The one licence they had seen had very few conditions attached . |
21 | And of course when he was coming home in the middle of the night from afternoons , biking it and the one night they came he was coming home you know the finger post at Pelsall ? |
22 | Three in the one night I think is just |
23 | Just the one night I would 've excused you . |
24 | in nineteen eighty four there , there was only the one company they had n't divisionalized , so I joined er company in nineteen eighty four |
25 | As there was only the one company it is reasonable to infer that everyone roped in for the first loan was in fact a Merchant Taylor . |
26 | The one subject we did not talk about was why the senator had flown to Straker 's Cay to meet me . |
27 | But , close as they were , that was the one subject she 'd never felt able to broach . |
28 | Why stop me doing the one subject I 'm ace at ? ’ |
29 | This was the one call he was allowed . |
30 | Perhaps even more disturbing than just the two points they have earned in six games , is the one goal they have scored in those matches . |