Example sentences of "one [prep] [pron] [noun pl] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of its subsidiaries has developed a machine capable of extracting the harmful gas from refrigeration plant with a environmentally sound technique . |
| 2 | RoC , the French hypoallergenic skin care company one of those in the news lately over controversial ingredients in one of its products has launched a national network of RoC Pure Beauty Centres to provide expert advice on skincare . |
| 3 | Such an innocent river , for all that it knew a secret , for all that one of its stones had put a man out of sight of the sunset ! |
| 4 | Before the end of the century one of its graduates had risen to be chancellor ( Baron Thugut , who succeeded Kaunitz in 1793 ) and in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries several others ( Haymerle , Burian and Czernin ) reached similar heights . |
| 5 | AMID a confusion of conflicting reports , Russia yesterday denied one of its planes had carried out a raid that killed one man and wounded eight people in Sukhumi , capital of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia . |
| 6 | Tradition has it that the infliction was brought to the village in a parcel of clothing sent to a local family , the Beevers , one of whose members had died from the plague in London . |
| 7 | One of her eyelashes had come unstuck . |
| 8 | One of her contacts had breathed the information down the telephone and she had clambered aboard Perfidia , her professional charm switching itself on and eager to deal with any obstacles between her curiosity and The Truth . |
| 9 | Fortunately , one of her friends had done a first aid course so he put her in the recovery position and cleared her airways , then gave her the kiss of life . |
| 10 | And then she recalled the time when she 'd just started her training , and one of her friends had fallen madly in love with a houseman , a rather conceited young man named Stewart . |
| 11 | One of her friends had married a man with the same late-July birthday as his wife — and what a knock-out , drag-out marriage that had been ! |
| 12 | The Crown Hotel in Newmilns amy have a few stories to tell as surprise , surprise , one of her friends had organised a ‘ Strip O'Gram ’ to provide some hilarious entertainment . |
| 13 | One of her schoolfriends had married a Bermudan and wrote in the most glowing terms about the life there . |
| 14 | The strap of one of her sandals had worked itself loose . |
| 15 | Marlin had not been pleased to know that one of her ex-lovers had attempted to play hero in his own apartment , and he would n't have been happy to find her making contact with Gentle at two in the morning . |
| 16 | She went to the houses of friends , she was invited everywhere , but not one of her schoolmates had crossed the door of Maple Gardens . |
| 17 | He had smelt burning and realized that the time pencil in one of their bombs had activated . |
| 18 | One of their sections had gone hog barmy and set up an operation that turned into a shoot-out in a friendly country with an apparently innocent citizen getting killed . |
| 19 | One of their descendants has founded the Farmington Institute for Christian Studies which successfully encouraged the Government , when drafting the Education Reform Act of 1988 , to restore Christian studies as an educational subject . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , one of their licencees had requested this and , since it was a lucrative contract , Bernard had told him to go ahead and produce it . |
| 21 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 22 | One of their colleagues had vanished in mysterious circumstances and all they could do was make up imaginary England cricket teams . |
| 23 | Not one of his friends had known him , + he could n't imagine why . |
| 24 | A SCHOOLBOY injured after metal goal-posts fell on him knew he was going to die , one of his friends has said . |
| 25 | Jackson , the estate agent , met Barratt on one of his visits having brought with him Michael Knott who was now desirous of talking business with John Taylor when he was next up . |
| 26 | Strange he thought , there seems to be a current fad around about dinosaurs , there was one on top of a bottle of bath oil one of his grandsons had given to him for Christmas and another was perched on the handle of a nail brush in the bathroom . |
| 27 | One of his wins had qualified him for the National so when he came up for sale at Doncaster , Kempton secured him for 2,000 guineas on behalf of two of his owners who were keen to have a runner in the race . |
| 28 | A couple of weeks later Stephen was called away to Bradford , where the manager of one of his mills had disappeared with the wages of the whole workforce . |
| 29 | What is needed , as one of his followers has pointed out , is an account of theories which deals with changes ‘ at the level of the limits and consequences of the epistemological configuration they represent ’ , rather than at the level of individuals . |
| 30 | At least one of his grandparents had made a career on the frontier ; and in The Cantos this forebear , Thaddeus Coleman Pound , makes several entries , always with an encouraging flourish on the drums . |