Example sentences of "one [noun] i be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I went to Drake Hall on one sentence I was waiting for another court case as well , a conspiracy case , a big one . |
| 2 | Nicknames are a favourite pastime with small boys and so during the next four years and one term I was known to my school mates as ‘ Pavement ’ . |
| 3 | One moment I was revelling in the astonishment of being alive , and the next — I was lying flat on my face , with what felt like a very large hole in the right side of my skull … |
| 4 | On one occasion I was breaking in new territory in Lincolnshire and my fellow ‘ artiste ’ — a male singer who shall remain nameless — moved in on me . |
| 5 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
| 6 | ‘ One minute I was going to Forest , the next it was all off . |
| 7 | One night I was joined by a visitor to Seend , anxious to be of help , Colonel Faithorne , who was some relation of the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and who showed intellectual interests , including a knowledge of Eliot , which I was not to meet again in a soldier until I made the acquaintance in 1974 of my late father-in-law . |
| 8 | One night I was woken by a slight noise . |
| 9 | ‘ One day I 'm going to be famous , too , ’ she vowed silently . |
| 10 | ‘ One day I 'm going to be a star . ’ |
| 11 | One day I 'm walking with her beside the river , and I 've got my arm round her shoulders , and she 's put her arm round my waist , and we laugh at everything , and stop every few yards to kiss , and think , this is fantastic ! |
| 12 | I tried missing some of these parades , but one day I was summoned to the local headquarters of the organization in Parma where a rather fat , forbidding woman of high rank , dressed in Fascist uniform , told me that if I missed any more I would be suspended from school . |
| 13 | One day I was browsing through it in the shop . |
| 14 | One day I was browsing in the university library , when for no reason that I could pick upon I drew a biography of Newton from one of the shelves . |
| 15 | One day I was walking down Bedford Street in Belfast city centre and this bloke pulled over in his car and started tooting his horn . |
| 16 | ‘ But one day I was sitting at home , doodling around the 12th fret and trying to figure out how I could play in a minor key without having to retune the guitar . |
| 17 | One day I was sitting on the roof with Chola and Mina , shelling wild walnuts for oil . |
| 18 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 19 | One day I was sitting in his room in Downing Street having a general discussion , when he suddenly said to me , ‘ Can you think of any good name for the next Honours List ? ’ |
| 20 | One morning I was woken by the sobbing of a boy … |
| 21 | ‘ One morning I was running on Hampstead Heath and saw a couple coming towards me . |
| 22 | One morning I was driving along the road when I saw an old man frantically waving a walking stick at passing cars . |
| 23 | Cause for one thing I was buying for more . |
| 24 | Yeah , its within your budget and you 've done well , I went over budget , but then I expected I would , because for one thing I was buying for more . |
| 25 | One thing I was wondering about you know they they talk about erm in Shakespeare 's works is the language the words he uses , the the sort of poetry of it and the symbolism that 's used . |
| 26 | One thing I was wondering about you know they they talk about erm in Shakespeare 's works is the language the words he uses , the the sort of poetry of it and the symbolism that 's used . |
| 27 | In particular one thing I 'm dealing with is black women going out with white men , which is a big issue now . |
| 28 | One thesis I am arguing for claims that authoritative reasons are pre-emptive : the fact that an authority requires performance of an action is a reason for its performance which is not to be added to all other relevant reasons when assessing what to do , but should exclude and take the place of some of them . |
| 29 | ‘ One medium I was sitting with told me Tom and Lillian appeared . |
| 30 | At one time I was going through two grams a day . |