Example sentences of "one [noun] i [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One day I happened to come across the work of the Italian still-life painter Giorgio Morandi . |
| 8 | One day I decided to go into town with Mona . |
| 9 | One week I failed to turn in an essay on the trade deficit . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | No because the hedging was the one thing I wanted to talk about . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One thing I did learn from loving Paul was that I was n't in love with David . |
| 15 | One thing I did excel at was tennis . |
| 16 | One reason I chose to work in the USA for 1994 was to watch England win the WC ; - ) |