Example sentences of "one of [pron] [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE husband of a heavily-pregnant woman found hanging in a garage told one of her friends that he used to be a backing guitarist for Eric Clapton , a court heard yesterday . |
| 2 | We all sat round the van , the caravan about quarter to four and she 'd just got one , she 'd got one of her friends and they got theirs about quarter to four . |
| 3 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 4 | Now Mrs Archer was a very good woman in her way but I 'm afraid that I was never one of her favourites because I was so slow to catch on , particularly in mathematics . |
| 5 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |
| 6 | His mouth refused to release hers , and every movement he made sent her spiralling deeper into an apparently bottomless pit of pleasure , it washed over her , saturated her , invaded every one of her nerve-ends until she did n't think she could stand it any more . |
| 7 | His lips were doing wonderful things to one of her ears and she heard him swallow , then rasp , ‘ I 'm taking you upstairs to my room . ’ |
| 8 | She has previously been sacked from one of her schools because she slept with her pupils . |
| 9 | Right , er another situation where there 's men and women differences is in multilingual communities , er you find that men and women 's attitudes to varieties or language varieties or languages can carry so some men will try and avoid using one of their languages because they see it as a low prestige variety whereas some women will use it because for them it 's a high prestige variety . |
| 10 | for one thing , if we 'd taken one of their houses and I 'd died first , my wife would of been left without a home |
| 11 | For a time she lived in one of their flats but she says : ‘ They 've got very thin walls and floors so that tenants can pick up vibrations . |
| 12 | Many of the alleged ‘ hidden costs ’ of distributed systems are are estimates of the informal training and problem-solving given to end users — yet in most companies , end users learn the in-house-preferred word processor or database program as they go along , asking one of their colleagues when they get stuck . |
| 13 | I tended the wounds of one of their men and they took me back with them into the great Forest of Ettrick . ’ |
| 14 | Ironworkers told one of their officials that they would stop working if the woodworkers were continued in employment . |
| 15 | It was at one of their conferences that I first came across organized lesbians and gays . |
| 16 | There 's many a time wished I 'd had one of them buggers when I 've gone to these meetings , union meetings and that . |
| 17 | Have you got one of them videos that you can tape tape tapes then ? |
| 18 | A number of myths have grown up about David 's relationship with me — one of them being that I wanted him to be another Tommy Steele or another cabaret star , but this was not true . |
| 19 | The rest of the time , he 'd stay with one of his friends when they were out campaigning for the animals . ’ |
| 20 | THE body of a 26-year-old man who was apparently buried alive while trying to rescue one of his terriers when it became trapped down a hole , has been found on a Welsh mountainside . |
| 21 | Antony has got a temporary cap on one of his teeth but he 's had it about twice really . |
| 22 | Elinor felt privileged to be one of his girlfriends for she was aware how little he cared for women and how he would sometimes wince when sitting next to one . |
| 23 | There is a reference in a letter from one of his dependents that he eventually took a passage home from Corfu on a naval vessel in 1843 ; and that an 1851 census shows that he was living with his wife and two of his daughters at Longhorsley , his birthplace . |
| 24 | Littler was attracted by her elegance and firm authority when she was Head Girl in one of his shows and he persuaded her to work in his organization and leave Tillers . |
| 25 | There was something that with one of his sense that he could recognize . |
| 26 | Even the Bishop of Durham , I 've just recently bought one of his books and I rather wish I had n't , I 'm not liking it much erm he 's still much too orthodox really . |
| 27 | He would clasp his hands together , fingers laced , biting one of his knuckles as he prayed . |
| 28 | He teaches me one of his songs and I sing it while he plays the guitar . |
| 29 | See it 's one of his hobbies and he goes to , he goes to er Bradshaws and he |
| 30 | I should do really got a clot in one of his legs as it means and went down the other one and got ta take it out , through smoking |