Example sentences of "[verb] it [was/were] one [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police say it was one of the worst attacks that they 've seen on a horse . |
| 2 | He says it was one of the best sexual experiences he has ever had . ’ |
| 3 | Vet , Bill Stuart says it was one of the worse cases of starvation he 'd ever seen . |
| 4 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 5 | He could n't tell , but guessed it was one of the team . |
| 6 | From the shape of its lights I guessed it was one of the small Peugeots . |
| 7 | His family as he depicts it was one of the greatest senatorial families in Gaul . |
| 8 | Raper was jailed for two years and Allen for six months , Sir Nicolas saying it was one of the most serious contempts he had ever come across . |
| 9 | ‘ Well … suppose it was one of the passengers who wanted to stop the train getting happily to Vancouver , what could he do ? ’ |
| 10 | Assuming it was one of the guests , she was about to mutter an excuse and go past ; but then the man turned to her and said , ‘ Well , Ruthie , love . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I bet it was one of the Muggeridges , ’ said Tilney . |
| 12 | At first Sergeant Bramble thought it was one of the latest Atco motor-mowers but it seemed to be coming from above them . |
| 13 | At first she thought it was one of the old ones and she almost wiped it out . |
| 14 | and I said oh there 's Benjy , there must be something , you know , I thought it was one of the kids that had jumped or something because the little one had always climbing and jumping off the wall , breaking his leg you know the weak one , and the next minute saw the ambulance outside , but he must of been , it must of been too massive to be able to do anything cos he was n't breathing that bit you see |
| 15 | The result was that I chaired a session and I got Pam Mills from the BBC to speak at it and everyone agreed it was one of the best sessions of the conference . |
| 16 | Erm mind you it was really a step onto something else that as far as I was concerned in those days I meant o go to sea of course and er that was the best place you could have er to serve an apprenticeship because everything er I mean it was one of the As everything was starting to get specialized in in other works nowadays it 's gone completely now . |
| 17 | David had always liked Mott The Hoople and admired them , and I think it was one of the few really unselfish acts he did when , when they were on the verge of breaking up , he wrote them a song — ‘ All The Young Dudes ’ . |
| 18 | And it was one of the critici criticisms that came out of the er I think it was one of the annual general meetings non-executive directors in there to oversee er basically as another control against Mister himself I suppose really at the end of the day . |
| 19 | And must have been I think it was one of the things that that helped to lead to a more settled period . |
| 20 | I think it was one of the best in the country , and I 'm I 'm serious about that . |
| 21 | I think it was one of the reasons why you did n't see so many malai women with long fingernails . |
| 22 | I think it was one of the signalmen or |
| 23 | ‘ Success on Just Do It was one of the most intense moments of my life . |
| 24 | The RSPCA official who rescued the animal said it was one of the most sickening scenes he had ever witnessed . |
| 25 | The judge said it was one of the gravest attacks he 'd come across . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ I walked along that roadway myself only two weeks ago and I can honestly say it was one of the best I have ever seen . |
| 27 | Well we were disappointed in the Good Report because er they did say it was one of the major issues , and yet they said that they did n't think any sweep in changes are needed which rather erm contradicted the earlier part of our report , we would have thought there were erm changes needed . |