Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] one of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I showed my drawing to one of the Visual Effects Designers . |
| 2 | The other reason was that a paternity suit had recently been brought against my opponent by one of the Council office cleaners , which caused a great deal of moral indignation — not so much on the poor woman 's behalf , I 'm afraid , as because it was felt he had ‘ lowered himself ’ . |
| 3 | If he had had any foresight , when the Woolf-Tumim report was published , the right hon. Gentleman would have said to himself , ’ Here is a unique and historic opportunity for me to make my reputation as one of the great Home Secretaries of the 20th century . ’ |
| 4 | I could n't visualise my mother in one of the Arab cafes . |
| 5 | A THREE-YEAR-OLD Siamese twin , separated from her sister in one of the most complicated operations yet attempted , died because she could no longer survive on her own , Great Ormond Street Hospital said yesterday . |
| 6 | An article which appeared in the paper contained comments by three jurors on what occurred when they retired to consider their verdict in one of the most complex trials in British legal history . |
| 7 | After the mother 's departure , he lost interest in the girl , turned over her upbringing to one of the house matrons . |
| 8 | Night Flyer ( Goodall Publications , 210pp , sbk , £3.50 ) by Lewis Brandon tells of some of the exciting episodes shared by the Author and his pilot , W/C James Benson , during their partnership as one of the most successful night-fighter crews in the RAF during World War Two . |
| 9 | Robyn parks her car in one of the University 's landscaped car parks , lugs her Gladstone bag from the front passenger seat , and makes her way to the English Department . |
| 10 | She gets her reply from one of the players : " crablouse " ( said with Creole pronunciation , but by a speaker who anyway has a Jamaican accent ) . |
| 11 | She nodded , handed it to him and watched as he put her key into one of the locks and the duplicate he carried into the other , turning both simultaneously . |
| 12 | 60 ) , which because of its association with one of the saltire mosaics ( Brown et . |
| 13 | Wireless World almost created civil war in the audio industry at about this time over its publication of one of the first RC-coupled amplifiers . |
| 14 | It was Paddy who , on a June day in 1985 , dropped Sarah at Windsor Castle 's private entrance where she was met by a footman and taken to her room by one of the Queen 's ladies-in-waiting . |
| 15 | She simpered , and took her place on one of the enormous chesterfields flanking the fireplace , sitting next to Mrs Moore , the dentist 's wife , mother of Hank 's dead friend Tony . |
| 16 | Increased floor space , a new ventilation system and improved lighting now allow the 101-foot long relief to be seen in conditions appropriate to its importance as one of the best-preserved classical friezes in existence after the Elgin marbles . |
| 17 | If there 's a positive relationship okay I d I mean that was just recapping something I said before so if you got it you 've probably got it down twice now Okay , if you knew that there was a positive relationship between two variables and we said that their score on one of the variables was high then we would expect , although not necessarily , because w it 's not true in every case but it i there 's a general trend , we would expect that their score on the other variable would also be high . |
| 18 | Then , strolling past Mariánské Láznë 's colonnade , she walked on and into an area of well-kept parkland and , taking her ease on one of the white-painted benches scattered around , found the card and began to write . |
| 19 | Again like other fields of sociology , these approaches can be conve-niently located within competing traditions which each owe their orientation to one of the three great ‘ founding fathers ’ of the discipline of sociology : Karl Marx , Emile Durkheim and Max Weber . |
| 20 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 21 | SHE made her name in one of the biggest TV comedies of the era . |
| 22 | The beast also gives its name to one of the most legendary units in the service of the Kings of Ulthuan : the White Lions , a picked group of warriors who guard the person of the Phoenix King . |
| 23 | IF THE PLAN has been for the Europeans not to show their strongest hands in the Freeport-McMoran Classic at English Turn , which takes its name from one of the sweeping bends in the Mississipi River , much has gone according to plan . |
| 24 | It takes its name from one of the first cases in which such an injunction was granted , Mareva Compania Naviera S.A . |
| 25 | Dagmar cycled from her flat in one of the new highrise blocks . |
| 26 | Analysts expect these to include a £12 million provision for Channel tunnel losses taken by Costain in its role as one of the members of the Transmanche Link construction consortium . |
| 27 | But it is difficult , it seems to me , to use them in a sort of very locational sense which is being suggested by their use as one of the criteria . |
| 28 | Athelstan stared idly up at one of the hams turning on its skewer from one of the rafters . |
| 29 | Rigby grew tired of her role as one of the official band girlfriends and told Gedge she was no longer willing to attend the concerts of his various line-ups . |
| 30 | Had the yacht not lost her mast during one of the Lymington autumn series races last year , she would have been a contender for top boat . |