Example sentences of "one of the [noun] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking out one of the choppers before it gets chance to launch any missiles is stupendously satisfying , and the difficulty level is set exactly right . |
| 2 | Joshua asked one of the Fionas if she sold fiction . |
| 3 | I think this is one of the chairman because there was so many horrendous forecasts in the summer and autumn about the S S A that when it was announced you know we thought it was goods news and of course it was n't , erm so this is why they 're trying to be prudent and we have kept in our proposals to the erm , has already mentioned that er , thank god , the er democratic growth has been covered this year and so on , erm , plenty of other things that we would like to see erm to comply with the government 's own legislation erm but they where with all . |
| 4 | Er , she was mainly one of the editors because she was erm , her father 's , you know she even inherited her father 's estate . |
| 5 | Sometimes Ken came too , or one of the boys if they were in the mood , but mostly he went by himself , trying to sort himself out . |
| 6 | Erm and I would I would want to try and do some er organize some press coverage at that time for the losers as well as for the winner so that a a and one of the things when we select the participants , er the entrants , er we will not have them all coming from the same school or from the same area , even if the five best entrants all do come from the same school . |
| 7 | No it it is probably one of the difficulties if it ever |
| 8 | I was about to throw it at one of the maids as she passed beneath me with a tray of glasses , but just then Claire came out of the reception room . |
| 9 | Adam was under one of the lamps as it burst to life . |
| 10 | When he arrived with his parents for the interview the headmaster took him to a field where a few golf holes were laid out , handed him a wedge and a bucket of balls , and told Jack to hit some shots at one of the greens while he organised some tea for his parents . |
| 11 | well it 's more likely that she 's gon na see one of the relatives than him , is n't it ? |
| 12 | Had they chosen a weekday for the coup , there would have been heavy traffic at this hour and news of the roadblocks would have spread quickly throughout the country , perhaps warning one of the ministers before he could be captured … one more example of exemplary planning . |
| 13 | I tell you this , Master , if we met a pretty maid I suspect she 'd fall in love with one of the horses before she took to any of us ! ’ |
| 14 | The concern of the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) stemmed from several considerations : regret that two neighbouring Muslim states should be spilling one another 's blood ; anxiety lest the conflict provoke the intervention of one or both superpowers , with dangerous consequences ; fear lest member states be attacked by one of the belligerents if they were suspected of sympathizing with the other ; a feeling that a conflict of this sort diverted Arab and outside world attention and resources from the paramount issue of palestine ; a desire not to see either belligerent emerge from the conflict so strengthened by the spoils of victory as to become the most powerful entity in the Gulf ; and , finally , anxiety lest their internal security should be threatened as a by-product either of the war or of Iran 's revolution . |
| 15 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 16 | William Bailey , an engine driver , said he recognised one of the guns as one he had sold to Henry Tidbury . |
| 17 | The Aerosols were almost impossible to stop , and the soldiers and their weapons and equipment were getting burned and melted all over the place until one brave soldier who had clung on to one of the Aerosols as it flew back to its base came back ( after many adventures ) with the news that their base was a breadboard moored under an overhang on an inland creek . |
| 18 | Dame Sybil took her ladle to one of the soldiers when they started shoving their swords into the mattress , but they only laughed and pushed her outside until they 'd finished . ’ |
| 19 | Over the wall , Frear had come in and was talking to one of the waiters as he wiped down the outside tables . |
| 20 | I ask one of the pickets if he supports the Democrats . |
| 21 | Olympia picked out one of the gems when they released Salmanov 's Fourth Symphony ( 3/89 ) , and I have been listening with much pleasure to Mravinsky 's Melodiya LPs of the previous three symphonies by this intriguing composer . |
| 22 | The 33-year-old doctor was knocked unconscious by one of the youths as he passed an empty house in Coulby Manor Farm , Coulby Newham . |
| 23 | I recognised one of the Commandos as someone I knew before the war . |
| 24 | Two of these they spotted as the German pilots began diving onto the Hurricanes tails , and at the right moment Westmacott carried out a hard climbing turn , coming out behind one of the Messerschmitts as it began to pull up . |
| 25 | I volunteered then to do one of the yards because you know , you 're asking other people to do it , it was gon na be a nightmare . |
| 26 | In production , therefore , they continue to play safe and so refrain from using one of the terms until they have worked out more fully what difference in meaning ( here a difference in language ) is associated with the observable differences in form . |
| 27 | Pleased to meet you , ’ the Cockney girl said to one of the men as they went downstairs with Maggie . |
| 28 | Well they used to have a little rowing boat and come after it , he used to get one of the lads while they come ashore and got his dinner . |
| 29 | as if things were not bad enough without those little bastards turning up to torment us , ’ remarked one of the medics as he tried to pack a shell dressing into a large abdominal wound . |
| 30 | Standing in the back of one of the pick-ups as it sped across the hard sand , with the dust spiralling out behind us across the vast plain , it seemed that a whole new world was opening up . |