Example sentences of "and [pron] [noun sg] be one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , John , put yourself in the customer 's shoes , and my wife 's one of your customers . |
| 2 | And his son in law O J , had become one of the partners and my cousin was one of the partners , but old Jonathan was still the senior partner . |
| 3 | ‘ They took two of the children and my mother was one of them . |
| 4 | That distinction , shockingly banal though it is , has been hard to shake from my mind , and its persistence is one of the things I want to explore in this article . |
| 5 | Her gaze swept over her mother-in-law from head to toe and back again , and her expression was one of open contempt . |
| 6 | In a house facing there and her son was one of then Caernarfon er what do you call them er militia like and they had to go talking with me and a little One of the first little motor cars like this . |
| 7 | These Dwarfs are capable smiths and keen-minded merchants , and their presence is one of the reasons why Altdorf has become the dominant city in the Empire . |
| 8 | In November 1937 he read the script aloud to Martin Browne and his wife , and their reaction was one of " fascination and doubt " : there was too much description and not enough action , they felt , and so he began once again the struggle to elucidate plot and characters . |
| 9 | There were then 3,688 such schools in England alone , and their record was one of considerable achievement : the staying-on rate had doubled since 1958 , and clear improvement could be noted — for example , in raising standards of reading . |
| 10 | Even as the first-year girl drew her inferences , her headmaster , Manuel Lenarduzzi , was preparing for last night 's meeting with her parents and those of other first-year children who are the guinea pigs of the new system and whose future is one of attainment targets . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's as good , for his age , as they 've got , and his wife is one of the sweetest women I know in this town . |
| 12 | Dobson seems to be quite sure of this , but Machyn was almost certainly a Londoner , and his Diary is one of the most valuable primary sources for the study of EModE London pronunciation . |
| 13 | Mr Hayden looked up from his writing and saw a figure dressed in old-fashioned clothes reminiscent of the style worn at the turn of the century and his expression was one of sadness . |
| 14 | And his father 's one of these obnoxious types you know ? |
| 15 | And your cousin was one of the first one of the few women I ever knew , who could take shorthand in Welsh . |