Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [conj] one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I understood that it had been arranged that one of us was to go into each room . ’ |
| 2 | For nearly thirty years that crusade has been regarded as one of his least successful , whereas a later British Crusade at Earls Court in London in 1966 has always been seen as a triumph . |
| 3 | As they approach this critical distance , either they are detected or one of them charges . |
| 4 | Her voice , which had been raised , as his had been , so as to be heard while one of them walked ahead of the other , died away as they passed down the corridor , presumably en route to bed . |
| 5 | This choice was helped to be made when one of them wrote me a nasty letter saying that it was clear that I wanted the other as my friend ( which , if I may say , was a lot of nonsense ) ! |
| 6 | No wonder they place some of it in a jar to be kept as one of their holiest objects , a sign for future generations of the extent of God 's grace ( no doubt that manna will remain fresh for ever : yet more miracle ! ) . |
| 7 | It was unfortunate that , just when he had quelled a great deal of internal disorder and was aiming at a profitable alliance with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses , he chose as a grand gesture to drive out the English garrison still holding Roxburgh castle , only to be killed when one of his own bombards exploded . |
| 8 | Petty was evidently of sufficient prominence in the radical popular movement , among those soon to be known as Levellers , to be chosen as one of their spokesmen or representatives to attend the meetings of the general council of the army in 1647 . |
| 9 | For years the potato has been acknowledged as one of our staple foods but recently its true potential has become more widely known . |
| 10 | It is believed that one of them moved the regulator and opened it up with the result that the train was soon out of control . |
| 11 | It was said that one of our very junior officers , with more enthusiasm than judgement , had been setting about a smuggler with the help of a dinghy oar when the " smuggler " yelled , " Stop it you silly b … , |
| 12 | But her government was weakened when one of her coalition partners , the Peasants Alliance , resigned soon after , costing her fragile alliance 17 votes and leaving the government in a minority in the lower house . |
| 13 | It was alleged that one of their foster children had recently been threatened with a knife . |
| 14 | She suffered one paroxysm of doubt , the first and the last , and a matter of shame to her as often as she remembered it after , when the hour of noon came and passed , and no one sent for her to go into the town and fetch her father to the audience ; and when she ventured to enquire , she was told that one of his Grace 's clerks had already gone to summon Master Parry , and she need not concern herself in the matter . |
| 15 | When I came to , I was used as one of their slaves and one of the men tried to kill my father . |
| 16 | The English king lost the battle of Bosworth , and his life , in 1485 because his attack was disorganised and one of his expected allies , the Earl of Northumberland , failed to support him . |
| 17 | The ageing king , Al-Kadir , was murdered and one of his viziers proclaimed the new overlord . |
| 18 | At thirty-six years of age Kell was chosen as one of its first two directors and shortly afterwards took over full responsibility for the defensive side . |