Example sentences of "[verb] it be one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 2 | Sister said , ‘ I expect it was one of our students at present working here as a dresser . |
| 3 | For a moment he thought there was a double meaning in her words , but he dismissed the thought when he recognised it was one of her usual openings to draw him into conversation . |
| 4 | At least Churchill is on record that Roosevelt had been more outspoken with him on the subject of Indochina than on any other colonial matter : ‘ I imagine it is one of his principal war aims to liberate Indochina from France ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ They are out of season and very expensive , but Alain bought them in Paris this morning , although I imagine it was one of his long-suffering secretaries who was dispatched to buy them . ’ |
| 6 | I guessed it was one of my circle of private informants on the Continent — the people even you do n't know about . |
| 7 | I believe it 's one of yours . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm glad I 'm grown-up now actually because er y'know it 's one of my great pleasures in life to wake up in the mornings and think great I 'm grown-up , I do n't have to go to school and er and I do n't have to live with my parents and er things are much better now than they were say sort of y'know twenty years ago or so , er giving away my age there . |
| 9 | I thought it were one of them , you know when you go in hospital and you 're off work and that ? |
| 10 | I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not . |
| 11 | I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not . |
| 12 | I thought it was one of them . |
| 13 | Oh I thought it was one of them fifty pence ones . |
| 14 | I do n't think it 's one of our accounts . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're not saying they might think it was one of us ? |
| 16 | It was weeks later before he realised it was one of his team , heading for a dram in Dunbar High Street . |
| 17 | One of their keenest fans , Darren Belk , who attends whole tours , thinks it is one of their main attractions . |
| 18 | The sergeant remembered it was one of his characteristics Blanche had mentioned . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , if they 're trying to imply it was one of us , you 're just as much a suspect as I am ! ’ |
| 20 | He would n't say why , just said it was one of his morbid moods . |
| 21 | See it 's one of his hobbies and he goes to , he goes to er Bradshaws and he |
| 22 | Why else would he bring you here on his first night back in Denmark when he knows it 's one of my favourite clubs ? ’ |