Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While at the city 's Royal Hospital , he took a detour to the maternity ward , where he caused one woman to laugh so much that she had to be whisked away quickly for a premature birth . |
| 2 | I recall very vividly how , after he had sung a short song in one of the episodes and commanded everybody 's attention , he announced that he hoped one day to be able to play the lead in a big West End musical . |
| 3 | It 's just that he went one way and I went another . |
| 4 | It should be noteá though that he crosses one boundary , from graveyard to dream , but not the next ; when he tries to swim the river to Heaven at the end of the poem he is halted and woken before he reaches the water . |
| 5 | Indeed , it is said that he composed one aria while waiting for the rice to cook . |
| 6 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 7 | Almost nothing is known of his family , childhood , or early education except that his father was private messenger to George IV and William IV , and that he had one sister and two brothers . |
| 8 | He began walking towards it and she saw that he had one hand inside his jacket , as if reaching for something . |
| 9 | So indeed it might have pleased him , for as has subsequently become clear , the best that can be said about the debate , from the Prime Minister 's point of view , is that he had one facet of the truth while General Maurice had another . |
| 10 | It is true that he gave one daughter , Eadburh , in marriage to Beorhtric , king of the West Saxons ( ASC A , s.a. 787 ) , and another , Aelfflaed , to Aethelred , king of Northumbria , in 792 , but the revival of a Northumbrian coinage at this time by Aethelred ( see above , p. 158 ) and the inauguration of a new West Saxon coinage by Beorhtric at Winchester or Southampton testifies to their continuing independence . |
| 11 | His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response . |
| 12 | Two terrorists were dead and he had one prisoner . |
| 13 | we were lucky to get this because chap er wanted to get out into a house really and he had one offer er from down south and they 'd put in and looked and they er and they sort of bo had n't followed it up , so |
| 14 | And he got one arm out of his jamas ! |
| 15 | And then we started the rehearsal scene and Rock Hudson walks in and he took one look at me and says , ‘ Where are my glasses ? ’ |
| 16 | He often comes in of an evenin' and he took one look at the cow and told me what to do . |
| 17 | She whispered it against the warmth of his neck and he released one hand to spear his fingers in her hair and tilt her face to his . |
| 18 | The notion had not been popular with many of the arts people in the Council , and he recalls one lady saying in a meeting that she would ‘ not give up one page of Beowulf for all the science in the world ’ . |
| 19 | Indeed it would be absurd if the following two cases were not treated the same : ( 1 ) A has two deposits each of £10,000 , and he assigns one deposit to B and the other to C ; and ( 2 ) A has one deposit of £20,000 , and he assigns one-half to B and the other half to C. |
| 20 | We have been here five months and he has one month left to complete his sixty . |
| 21 | If the Minister had bothered to listen to the submissions made to him or if he cared one iota for the industry , he would know that the figures come from the farmers . |
| 22 | If he took one side of the street during a walkabout the crowd collectively groaned , it was his wife they had come to see . |
| 23 | I said if he says one word , I said I 'm gon na jump on him . |
| 24 | If he had one trait of potential consequence it was his fondness for France , which led him to encourage efforts to ally with that country , but the international situation made these futile during his lifetime . |
| 25 | If he had one talent above all — Alec Guinness has singled it out as his greatest gift — it was for reading verse with intelligence and passion . |
| 26 | Is a judge ever conscious that his reputation as a judge is likely to be adversely affected in their eyes if he decides one way , and favourably affected if he decides another way ? |
| 27 | Perhaps if he followed one path , he would find a place where they came together ? |
| 28 | If he uses one hand on the cup handle , he should always have the other hemiplegic hand correctly positioned in front of him . |
| 29 | Ask Raymond if he wants one sugar , or two sugar in his coffee . |
| 30 | They are invisible to humans , although a child born on a Sunday may glimpse them if he puts one foot inside a fairy ring . |