Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [pers pn] was [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One evening he was particularly buoyant . |
| 2 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 3 | One night I was up all night with him and I started back on the bottle . |
| 4 | One night I was so tired that I fell asleep when he was still pushing in and out of me . |
| 5 | One day it was just open again . |
| 6 | One week it was out 1.30 pm till midnight raising money to fight the effects of the Clause 28/9 Bill . |
| 7 | It was quite a litany of aggression , even though on at least one count she was entirely innocent ! |
| 8 | Although the house had only one floor it was rather grandiose , and full of pretentious-looking reproduction Renaissance furniture which was distinctly uncomfortable to live with . |
| 9 | ‘ Then I woke up one summer morning-it was still dark , the birds were just starting their dawn chorus , and on that particular day there seemed only to be crows — and I felt very cold . |
| 10 | One thing I was n't keen on was that the noise suppressor stayed on all the time . |
| 11 | Adam Burns was a hard man to get to know , but one thing she was instinctively sure of was that he 'd never back away from something simply because it was dangerous . |
| 12 | One thing she was quite certain of — she was in love with Edward and that meant she would have to continue to let him — or he would find someone else who would . |
| 13 | For one thing she was very proud of her , for another when she talked about her lovely sister and her exciting life she felt as if some of the glamour rubbed off onto her . |
| 14 | Loving Niall , she wanted … needed … a total commitment in return , and that , it seemed , was the one thing he was n't prepared to give . |
| 15 | For one thing it was too babyish — Moses Arkwright would never do anything with so little risk attached to it — and for another , deep in the dark of his mind a small seed of moral uneasiness had begun to germinate . |
| 16 | That one blister I was rather proud of , is now lost in a rich crop of blisters , bloated , white , obscene — a big blister on each heel and sole , and small blisters disposed neatly on the underside of each toe . |
| 17 | At one time it was not uncommon for a retailer to display an exemption clause in his premises or include it in a written contract even though that clause was rendered totally ineffective by Act of Parliament . |
| 18 | At one time it was up 10.0 points . |
| 19 | At one time it was quite obvious that his main sponsor , Essex Petroleum , run by the flamboyant American ex-decorator and former Brussels bus-boy , David Thieme , was in some sort of dire trouble and that this trouble was bound to affect Team Lotus as it did ; Chapman knew I was looking into the complex affairs of Thieme and Thieme 's longstanding relations with Lotus . |
| 20 | At one time it was only precious metals . |
| 21 | At one time I was very religious , also a regular church-goer . |