Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Clark and his mentor developed one of those partnerships whose memory will last forever . |
| 2 | His eyes swept the terrasse 's clientèle and an eyebrow twitched as his glance passed one of them in a way that directed attention to the woman sitting there , with her back to the street , facing them through the glass . |
| 3 | His girlfriend sold one of Keating 's paintings to a dealer and it was discovered and eventually traced back |
| 4 | DARLINGTON manager Frank Gray agreed that his side gave one of their best displays of the season so far . |
| 5 | His attitude reminds one of Southey 's dictum , ‘ Your true lover of literature is never fastidious . ’ |
| 6 | A froth of blood and sputum bubbled round the nobleman 's mouth ; his body gave one last life-jerk , and lay still . |
| 7 | As a result , he was taken completely by surprise when twelve stone of lean muscle powered into him at snake-like speed and wrenched the gun aside , the shot slamming into a very surprised Froebe , who staggered back , the impact of his body cracking one of the windows . |
| 8 | Additionally , his failure to collect one of the top races — he remains without a win in the Champion Hurdle , Gold Cup and Grand National — have limited the stable 's earning potential . |
| 9 | His move puts one of TV 's top jobs up for grabs . |
| 10 | Mr Tholen will spend his retirement indulging one of his other great loves gardening . |
| 11 | In the corner of his room stands one of several tanks in his collection , containing a selection of community fish and plants . |
| 12 | It was a period of penury such that James and his team spent one night in Pau furtively thieving back the petrol that had been stolen from their car and eventually hitchhiking back home via Le Havre , with no food on the way — and it brought out in James qualities of tenacity that he had n't really suspected in himself . |
| 13 | His article did one of the most intriguing individuals in the industry justice without being blind to his flaws . |
| 14 | His friend had one further shock for him . |
| 15 | Yet while his wife slept one afternoon he found himself looking in cardboard boxes in the attic for blackout curtains which he remembered from the War . |
| 16 | He remembered that his wife had one precious jewel , and he did what no man should ever do — he went and gave his wife 's only jewel to the beggar . |
| 17 | Herbert and his wife had one son and three daughters , the youngest of whom , Laura , was the wife of Evelyn Waugh [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | After Gilman 's death in London 12 February 1919 , in the influenza epidemic , his wife married one of his brothers . |
| 19 | ‘ Now the birth begins , ’ said Mr White Face , as his wife lifted one leg , ‘ and you will find all will go according to plan . |
| 20 | He finished the second pint with a definitive swallow and the backward movement of his head shifted one of the pictures . |
| 21 | In 1964 , when Pople left the UK for the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh , as it was then called , his departure inspired one popular British newspaper to the headline Another brain down the drain , but given the lamentable levels of financial support by successive UK governments for the theoretical research in which Pople was to excel , it is unlikely he could have achieved so much without moving . |
| 22 | His output included one large general map of Ireland ( now lost ) and a smaller general map in which the north was probably copied from earlier cartographers . |
| 23 | His father-in-law owned one of the best-known galleries in Paris on Place Saint-Augustine . |
| 24 | and his mate had one and he had the other one and he said I 'll never be able to use them he said and they 're in the way , can you do anything with them ? |
| 25 | It proved to be a conservative estimate Marshall Field , who arrived in Chicago with one dollar in his pocket built one of the worlds greatest department stores and had enough spare energy to partner Pullman in the railcar business , become vice-president of both General Electric and the Edison Company , president of United States Steel , founder of the Chicago Sun and a bank which became one of the four biggest in the world . |
| 26 | Increasingly , his role became one of supporting his leaders . |
| 27 | Like everyone else 's in this period , his life became one of monotony and anxiety , caught in a middle period when pre-war life seemed unreal and post-war life unimaginable . |
| 28 | Back in his bare , little room , Angel lay on his bed smoking one cigarette from another . |
| 29 | Did his spirit want one thing and his body another ? |
| 30 | It was not too surprising , therefore , that one of the King , s former ministers , the Count of Lezay-Marnésia , should allow his daughter to become one of the Empress 's ladies , though he could not have known that his gesture would be immortalized , for she is one of those who figure in the famous painting by Winterhalter ( now in the Musée National du Chateau de Compiègne ) . |