Example sentences of "one [prep] [pron] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely one of thee needs a drudge ? |
| 2 | In reply Jesus told the parable of the two debtors , a simple story about two men , one of whom owed a lot of money and the other a little . |
| 3 | At Lajpath Nagar we met up with two musicians , a pair of elderly men , one of whom played a harmonium , the other a pair of tabla drums . |
| 4 | In 1945 , the subscriptions rose from five to seven guineas ( four guineas to five guineas for ladies ) , close on a 30% increase for the Men and 25% for the Ladies only one of whom had a handicap at the end of the War . |
| 5 | James and Joan had three sons , one of whom became a major in Charles II 's army and drowned in the river at Pershore . |
| 6 | At the front of the parade , the solemn men in dark suits and bowler hats , one of whom carried a Bible on a purple cushion . |
| 7 | The fire was discovered at 3 a.m. by a master working late , and together with two boys — one of whom climbed a waterspout to get to the juniors ' bedroom via the roof and the other operated a hand-pump in dense smoke — managed to raise the alarm . |
| 8 | The worst expensive flop Peter Barnes , Allan Clarke says he needed to buy eight players and was only allowed four , one of which cost a lot , well Allan , you bought the WRONG ONE ! 30,000 |
| 9 | My ‘ want ’ first manifested itself in rudimentary arithmetic lessons when problems were posed concerning the respective times taken by A and B to fill baths , one of which had a hole in it . |
| 10 | Beyond the compact unity of the City of London and the LCC ( and its constituent metropolitan boroughs ) there lay a multiplicity of administrative units , extending over almost 2,600 square miles divided amongst no less than 143 local authorities , nearly every one of which had a planning scheme prepared or in course of preparation , independently of its neighbours . |
| 11 | Mrs Goreng had been in Danu ten months , every one of which seemed a year to her . |
| 12 | Next to it stands the former bailiff 's castle which is now a historical museum housing several treasures , one of which has a link with America . |
| 13 | They are well-endowed with pockets : two zipped at the back ( giving double thickness to the seat ) , one of which has a side opening to take a map but too narrow for an OS map . |
| 14 | one of which incorporates a bridleway , a farm accommodation bridge , an agricultural underpass , two footbridges and various retaining walls . |
| 15 | There was one of her dandling a baby , and he took it into the kitchen to her . |
| 16 | One of them made a stand for repeal of the Corn Laws , which must have taken some guts in this neck of the woods . ’ |
| 17 | One of them made a farewell address : |
| 18 | One of them took a handful of the stuff . |
| 19 | The men in the smithy seized him ; and one of them took a hammer and drove a nail into the sole of his boot . |
| 20 | One of them wore a kaftan . |
| 21 | One of them wore a hat that dripped water from the brim . |
| 22 | One of them contained a silver sixpence which Frankie turned in his fingers but did not remove in case Sweetheart , in her present bad mood , took it away from him . |
| 23 | They are said to be very fast over the first 40 yards , and the advice offered by the locals is that you should run on a zig-zag course if one of them takes a fancy to you . |
| 24 | The two policemen in the doorway stared in at him , one of them taking a step closer , anxious to rescue their plain clothes colleague from Scott 's attack . |
| 25 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 26 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 27 | One of them became a cardinal , and , in 1130 , pope — or , as he came to be reckoned , an anti-pope . |
| 28 | Chloe , nine , Leo , seven , and Greg , four , are all keen followers of their father 's career , so how would he react if one of them expressed a wish to take the wheel ? |
| 29 | One of them left a couple of minutes later to buy a newspaper . |
| 30 | One of them carried a guitar case . |