Example sentences of "[art] one i [vb past] you " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
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| 1 | You know , the one I told you about — She asked me to cut her toenails and give her feet a wash . ’ |
| 2 | He 's the one I told you about , who can see in the dark . |
| 3 | The one I told you about . |
| 4 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 5 | I said that 's the one I said you should do . |
| 6 | That militant Forbes — you know , the one I warned you about last week — has called all the food and beverage staff out on strike ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The one I gave you for Christmas ? ’ |
| 8 | The one I gave you last week ? |
| 9 | Log , that 's the one I gave you on Monday morning . |