Example sentences of "one [noun] i [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One question I did ask at the Fire and Public Protection Committees what happens when you do n't , when we bring in a unity authority status . |
| 2 | Expressing his delight at being appointed , he said : ‘ This is the one job I had hoped for . ’ |
| 3 | On one occasion I stopped to pray before the statue of a saint at a street corner and noticed the lamp burning before it . |
| 4 | You get really annoyed when they do n't know everything and they do and they ca n't answer your questions , apart from your parents I do n't think there 's one person , well me anyway , there 's not one person I 've looked at and thought oh well that 's what should be done . |
| 5 | One day I had to go to the clinic and I lied about the time of the appointment so I could skip a suit inspection , so I had an hour to waste . |
| 6 | Then one day I had to go to the Post Office for something — one of them forms I daresay — so I thought I better wrap up , I better take care , you 're very vulnerable after a long illness you know , and I put my old long mack on and one of the kids ' mack hats and Wellingtons and I went out in the rain , feeling , in a depressed sort of way , ‘ Well , if I get ill again , what can I do ? |
| 7 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 8 | One day I happened to come across the work of the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi . |
| 9 | One day I decided to go into town with Mona . |
| 10 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 11 | That was half full of water and the ice had cut through the wood flow down the river , cos the water was coming in like hell and er cos one thing I had to do about it , had like a chain in the , in th in the boat , so we pulled the chain out , I pulled the chain out first and go just got the , the erm hull just above water so I bail the boat out with a bucket chuck it down the side right quick . |
| 12 | I do n't know how to approach this , but this is me , Sarah , your pathetically vile big sister , not able to find the words , but hoping you can see what I 'm trying to do — what I 'm trying to say — and please , please believe me when I say that I 'm not trying to run away from what I 've done , but if I could change somehow — obliterate — one thing I 've done in my life , one truly awful thing that I have done , it would be this . |
| 13 | I might have checked out the financial aspects of buying into the station , but one thing I 've learned over the years is that you can never do too much research . |
| 14 | But one thing I 've learnt through life is do n't predict when a revolution will take place , or who will run it . |
| 15 | That 's one thing I 've learnt in the police force . ’ |
| 16 | One thing I 've learnt in the last half hour is the speed at which the rules of debate seem to be changing and it will not surprise you to hear that as Mr Allenby and Harrogate District Council have moved towards Professor Lock 's point of view , they have moved away from the Civic Society 's point of view . |
| 17 | The one thing I remember taking from that report was the recommendation about how one should present drama to children that you do n't patronise , you do n't talk down . |
| 18 | One thing I forgot to bring with me this afternoon was a tape of the assembly worship I 'm sorry about that , but I do n't think you 've got a tape recorder have you ? |
| 19 | No because the hedging was the one thing I wanted to talk about . |
| 20 | For one thing I learned to cope with it better and then , well , I started growing and nobody singled me out for ridicule any more . |
| 21 | ‘ The one thing I do have in common with William , ’ conceded Preston , ‘ is that we both grew up knowing the heavens might open at any moment and drop a load of shit on our heads . ’ |
| 22 | No I have n't , no it 's , it 's er one thing I need to put in that one that due to wear to go in I can see those , that cream out there can you ? |
| 23 | One thing I have noticed about the American way of life is the emphasis on the positive . |
| 24 | The one thing I have bought from a tin of biscuits . |
| 25 | One thing I did learn from loving Paul was that I was n't in love with David . |
| 26 | One thing I did excel at was tennis . |
| 27 | One reason I chose to work in the USA for 1994 was to watch England win the WC ; - ) |
| 28 | It 's the one coffee I get made per day . |
| 29 | One track I 've omitted on purpose the Barcarolle from Tales of Hoffman , in which Dame ‘ Bella ’ is joined by Nellie Walker , and does not attempt to sing it with herself as Elisabeth Schumann did . |
| 30 | There is just one observation I wish to make to the Committee this afternoon and it actually goes about the whole issue of the planning aspect of what 's gone on . |