Example sentences of "she [vb -s] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celie is fourteen years old , she has one sister , Nettie and numerous half brothers and sisters . |
| 2 | Now a vice-president of American fashion firm Esmark , she has one comment : ‘ I had a ball ! ’ |
| 3 | She has one rap — ‘ Killing Me Softly , Deadly Code of Silence ’ — which starts ‘ George Bush is a terrorist ’ , and Bill Clinton apparently thinks she 's one of the major problems facing the USA today . |
| 4 | Whenever anyone makes something too long , she snips one edge of the knitting , then snips the other edge on the same row and pulls out that line of knitting . |
| 5 | She says one boy has gone back to bed wetting because he 's so worried . |
| 6 | She says one fear is that land in the hills will become redundant . |
| 7 | She recalls one flashpoint involving a persistent representative who called regularly without an appointment trying to sell goods in which Betts had no interest . |
| 8 | She takes one look at Gisela and has her fringe cut too . |
| 9 | She takes one tablet a month . |
| 10 | She says , she says it 's , she gets one thing and and |
| 11 | She cites one example of a man who spent several years living in his parents-in-law 's house but still had little to do with them afterwards ; another where a man had helped to nurse his father-in-law through an illness , but when that was over had as little contact with him as he had before ( Cornwell , 1984 , p. 89 ) . |
| 12 | and then I think she 's back for , erm I think she gets back , she misses one Monday this Bank , Bank Holiday , that 's , that 's four days and then , she does , I think she 's got another two , three weeks and I suppose she 'll be , well she 'll be doing GCSEs anyway |
| 13 | Then she telephones one day and says she wants her stuff delivered bloody quick . |
| 14 | Well perhaps she only gets two pence a week pocket money and she saves one penny . |
| 15 | After lunch , Faith often goes round to see a friend or her mum , who lives nearby , but she spends one afternoon a week doing a big shop . |
| 16 | She begins one sentence : ‘ Although I have no idea how I shall usefully fill the remainder of my life … ’ |
| 17 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |