Example sentences of "[art] one was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one was made , the other still making . |
| 2 | They had driven around for over an hour trying to find the rave that every one was going on about . |
| 3 | When the morning came they saw all the gardeners and weeders coming up to the wall and every one was looked at by three guards . |
| 4 | Of course he thinks it would be better still from the point of view of justice if no one was made to compensate for emotional injury . |
| 5 | In fact , no one was killed , but the tinder had been lit and , bereft of foreign support , the regime crumbled in the space of three weeks . |
| 6 | One passenger on a train that arrived at the station seconds before the blast said : ‘ It was a miracle no one was killed . ’ |
| 7 | Blyth Wright , of the Scottish Avalanche Information Service , said : ‘ We had about six avalanches in October but , fortunately , no one was killed , although one climber was caught up in one . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a miracle no one was killed . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ At least no one was killed , ’ said Garvin sourly . |
| 10 | Police say it 's amazing no one was killed or injured . |
| 11 | Police say it 's amazing no one was killed or injured . |
| 12 | One patrol car crashed during the pursuit , injuring two officers , but the police say it 's incredible no one was killed . |
| 13 | No one was killed in the two crashes . |
| 14 | He cackled on , nervous with shock , glancing guiltily around the pool terrace to make sure no one was watching . |
| 15 | Damon pressed the button , the doors parted and Jasper , making sure no one was watching , lit his cigarette . |
| 16 | Then , first looking round to make sure no one was watching , she sat up straight again and pulled her dress to her knees , with her legs on either side of the horse . |
| 17 | He had seen Kiku riding flat out along tracks where no sane man would take an animal faster than a trot — but only when she thought no one was watching . |
| 18 | Hoping no one was watching , Coleman climbed the tower 's inspection ladder to look at the frequency allocation on the antennae . |
| 19 | No one was watching her . |
| 20 | He only hoped that no one was watching him , as he almost ran down the unlit passage and out of the back door . |
| 21 | The television news-reader 's voice still rang across the room , sounding forlorn now that no one was listening . |
| 22 | But no one was listening . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ said Caspar , and then glanced over his shoulder as if to make sure no one was listening , ‘ well , the truth of it is , that I work for the Gruagach . |
| 24 | Laying herself down beside Cad again in the hot room under the single sheet , she instructed her sister carefully , how she was to find Tommaso Talvi in town the next day , to come across him as if by accident , and then , if no one was listening , she was to give him a message . |
| 25 | ‘ He was crying out for help but no one was listening , ’ his mother said . |
| 26 | However , support workers who worked with more than one client generally did so sequentially : no one was helping more than two clients ( unless they were giving temporary relief ) at any one time . |
| 27 | Geraldine checked no one was looking , took one daffodil and dropped it over a wall into a garden . |
| 28 | ( Miss Jekyll used to jump five-bar gates when no one was looking . ) |
| 29 | He looked about him : no one was looking : he slipped the letters between the leaves of his own copy of the Oxford Selected Ash , which he was never without . |
| 30 | Gary added some more oats to his bucket when no one was looking , and stopped to watch his mare eat . |