Example sentences of "[adv] one [noun sg] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now er her husband came down one day and I said to him , what 's your name , and he said Mr |
| 2 | Three drawers down one side and it 's got it |
| 3 | I 've put an apple tree down one side and I 've got a victoria plum on the other side . |
| 4 | ‘ We have only one question and I apologise to you , Sir Brian , but it 's a name , that 's all . |
| 5 | If one took the distance as only one kilometre and we regard that as absolutely insufficient for a village of the character of Flaxton , we would prefer one and a half miles or two point four kilometres as the minimum . |
| 6 | There is only one solution and it costs money . |
| 7 | I scramble down a muddy , leaf-littered bank and into a chilly stream at the bottom ; it flows over one boot and I whisper , ‘ Shit ’ and squelch up the far bank , holding onto the cold branches of bushes and the mud-slimy roots of trees . |
| 8 | Granny 's crepe paper slipped over one eye and she seemed to be saying ‘ Serves them right . ’ |
| 9 | It has just one pickup and we 've talked about the idea of doing a version of it with a pickup in the bridge that you can mix in too . |
| 10 | Just one shot and I pushed her into the water . |
| 11 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 12 | they are , she got the forms er but it did n't go and you 'd got to fill them in and then it happened with , but then suddenly she came home one day and she said oh she said I 've got a job |
| 13 | Woke up one night and I heard this voice er ca n't remember what you said now no hey ! |
| 14 | ‘ I just woke up one morning and I felt glad to be alive , and glad that I was n't on this earth on my own , that there were other people to share it with me and help me get through my life . ’ |
| 15 | So I decided to give up one sugar and you know , I have to take it sort of weak weaker anyway . |
| 16 | Yeah sir , I just missed out one word and you gave me two . |
| 17 | Then I was working and my sister Mary started work and my father went out one night and he came back knocked the door and he was drunk as per usual . |
| 18 | ‘ I showed a friend of mine round here one day and she said the most stunning difference was that the clients actually talked to each other . |
| 19 | Judge , old was executor he went there one day and he got her to sign her will |
| 20 | I went down there one day and I says where is he ? got him she 's giving him some cake and milk . |
| 21 | I saw a wheelchair there one day and I know |