Example sentences of "one [prep] [pron] had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reflected on the options which had been open to him , one of which had led to his downfall . |
| 2 | It was reported on March 13 that a Bulgarian seaman had died in hospital following an incident in which two Bulgarian patrol boats had fired at eight Turkish fishing boats , one of which had responded by ramming a Bulgarian boat . |
| 3 | It makes little difference in any case , one of them had said to him once . |
| 4 | The embossed iron doors were rusting and one of them had fallen off its hinges . |
| 5 | If one of them had escaped from Whitely we 'd have known about it , but three of the cunts ? |
| 6 | And then one of them had rushed to the truck and talked into a machine on a string . |
| 7 | The headlines included a row between two Conservative MPs over remarks one of them had made about the weight of the Princess of Wales , an attack on the Prime Minister by a junior bishop in the Church of England , a house fire in Cardiff , and the discovery of a woman 's body in South London . |
| 8 | I thought it possible that directional sightings could be made from the centre of the tower through the crenellations and was intrigued to find that one of them had disappeared since my previous visit . |
| 9 | The men asked some very technical questions and during conversation it turned out that one of them had worked on the construction of the Visitors ’ Centre and another had been employed on the construction of one of the Scottish nuclear power stations . ’ |
| 10 | His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) . |
| 11 | If one of them had tunnelled into a snowdrift , his ski-sticks unfindable , another had slipped and was dangling over the edge of a snow-capped tunnel . |
| 12 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |