Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [art] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had hated the one double date Antonia had talked her into , hated the squirming disaster of the back seat of the car , the searching hands , the prescribed wet goodnight kiss . |
| 2 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 3 | Jimbo himself had made the one effort that only a patient can make . |
| 4 | On the other hand their subordinates — that large body of laymen and women who , as assistants or typists , seemed necessary to support what Ian had called the one per cent addressed these senior clergy by their titles to their faces and even amongst themselves referred to their superiors in this way . |
| 5 | At other times they claimed that Kylie had negotiated a one million dollar contract to return to Neighbours — a story which Kylie described as wildly untrue . |
| 6 | It was not that he had found the one secret place where the Author could not see him . |
| 7 | Of course it would have been difficult for intellectuals to admit that it was precisely their own condemnation and neglect of films which had removed the one buffer that the film industry could have used to protect itself from the onslaught of ‘ the Meddlers and Busybodies ’ . |
| 8 | He had lost the one person who believed in him , the one person whom he could trust with his innermost thoughts . |
| 9 | She had lost the one man she loved in all the world . |
| 10 | Lazarus 's business ambitions soon elevated him from storeman to lumber merchant , thence to a partnership in the coal industry which became his sole business — L. Cohen and Son — after a few years , and hence to a high-profile dredging company which could boast that it had kept every one of the lifelines of the young nation — the St. Lawrence tributaries between Lake Ontario and Quebec — open . |
| 11 | By chance ( chance again ! ) she had chosen the one thing that would reach , spinning down through all that froth of excited sentiment , right down to the very core of Sarah 's being : the memory of Tom . |