Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be one of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their baby Charlie was born in 1989 and has himself been one of the show 's stars . |
| 2 | Mind , it was the surprise of me life to 'ear you 'd teamed up with a fly female pickpocket , I did n't know you was one of the lads . ’ |
| 3 | She went inside , and was relieved to discover she was one of the first customers . |
| 4 | You do know he 's one of the special police force responsible for the security of our royal family ? ’ |
| 5 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 6 | Sister said , ‘ I expect it was one of our students at present working here as a dresser . |
| 7 | I expect it was one of these walks you know , and Ian found a stick and then he thought Tim would like one . |
| 8 | As I say it 's one of these er competitive market things , but if you go into an electrical shop and you buy a piece of electrical equipment , or if you want er a plug for it , a piece of electrical equipment because you found out that the plug on the electrical equipment at home is defective , it 's got cracked porcelain or something like , then please have a word with the person who is selling you the plug and say look , this plug is gon na be fitted on X appliance . |
| 9 | the police say it 's one of the most sickening cases they 've ever had to deal with … |
| 10 | The paintings , porcelain and furniture had been taken in burglaries across the region.Officers say it 's one of the biggest hauls ever recovered . |
| 11 | Experts say it 's one of the worst allergy cases they 've seen . |
| 12 | And as you say it 's one of the best things that they want . |
| 13 | The police say it was one of the worst attacks that they 've seen on a horse . |
| 14 | But when he went to pick it up he was horrified to discover it was one of Isaac 's geese . |
| 15 | he 's a traditionalist … and wants what is one of Britain 's greatest stately homes to go to someone who will look after it . |
| 16 | To destroy them is one of the war aims , and that means that the fabric , the infrastructure , of your cities is being gutted . |
| 17 | Let me be one of your warriors . |
| 18 | The derogatory phrase ‘ he 's not a real polis ; he 'll never be a polis as long as he 's got a hole in his arse ’ quickly set out markers to define who was one of us and who was not . |
| 19 | I assumed she was one of Bella 's lot . |
| 20 | For a moment he thought there was a double meaning in her words , but he dismissed the thought when he recognised it was one of her usual openings to draw him into conversation . |
| 21 | He says he 's one of the front bench 's two main performers . |
| 22 | She says it 's one of the most important collections of the century . |
| 23 | The RSPCA says it 's one of the worst cases of it 's kind . |
| 24 | He says it 's one of the worst cases he 's seen . |
| 25 | He says it was one of the best sexual experiences he has ever had . ’ |
| 26 | Vet , Bill Stuart says it was one of the worse cases of starvation he 'd ever seen . |
| 27 | Even Oscar Wilde called it charming — granted he was one of history 's great gossipers , but he was an even greater gossipee . |
| 28 | At least Churchill is on record that Roosevelt had been more outspoken with him on the subject of Indochina than on any other colonial matter : ‘ I imagine it is one of his principal war aims to liberate Indochina from France ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ They are out of season and very expensive , but Alain bought them in Paris this morning , although I imagine it was one of his long-suffering secretaries who was dispatched to buy them . ’ |
| 30 | It does not make them feel he is one of them ; it merely makes them feel he has no longer any clout . |