Example sentences of "one [prep] [pers pn] [vb mod] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them would be more at home doing scaffolding on a building site , in my opinion . |
| 2 | The time recorded on two different watches , for example , can be perfectly associated : the time on one of them can be correctly predicted from the time on the other , but not because the time on one of them causes the time on the other ; altering the time on one of them would have absolutely no impact on the other . |
| 3 | She thought that not one of them could be more than eighteen or twenty , and she remembered how it had been said that the Robemaker scoured Ireland , taking the sons of the ordinary Irish families to work here . |
| 4 | Yet everyone may come into contact with the mentally handicapped at some stage in their lives ; indeed any one of us may be accidentally brain damaged . |
| 5 | " The whole thing 's a farce , of course , they 've known and loathed each other for years , but the official version of this world-shaking meeting of titans has to take place in public where it can be duly recorded — and one of us must be there , and why should it be me on a Sunday morning when I 've got an angelic assistant ? |
| 6 | One of us will be out in a minute , ’ she told the young nurse . |