Example sentences of "[vb past] one [prep] his [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mason 's prowess in a Hawk trainer moved one of his instructors to observe that the writer was wasted as a journalist . |
| 2 | One teacher found one of his pupils waiting for him , half-naked , in the back of his car . |
| 3 | The cameraman 's assistant used one of his lenses to focus the sun 's rays on his — the ones in the more personal places . |
| 4 | " On at least four occasions , " therefore , " the emperor either personally turned things around or used one of his lieutenants to do so " . |
| 5 | During the summer of 1521 he produced one of his writings entitled ‘ In Defence of the Seven Sacraments , ’ exposing the heresies of the German Protestant , Martin Luther , and he dedicated the writing to Pope Leo X , from whence the King was known as ‘ The Defender of the Faith ’ . |
| 6 | On second thoughts he also sent one of his aides to fetch blankets as well , for some of the ladies did not seem to be very decently attired and , although they did not look very enticing , he still did not want them to give his men ideas . |
| 7 | She broke off when she saw one of his eyebrows ascend aloft . |
| 8 | She saw one of his hands come up and , putting out one finger , he traced a tingling trail over her lips . |
| 9 | The man in the pub who remembered one of his workmates complaining to Walter that he had got the details of the factory machinery wrong … |
| 10 | Then he said one of his friends had been attacked , shot down in the street . |
| 11 | In his memoirs , he later quoted one of his generals saying , as he face his trial and firing squad , that the Americans " threw the Shah out of the country like a dead mouse . " |
| 12 | He also had drains that were in a terrible state and therefore wanted one of his sons to become a plumber . |