Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] one of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An employee who would never venture to ask for a raise in salary for herself suddenly besieged the manageress with demands that one of her fellow workers should have her rights . |
| 2 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 3 | Three Germans , two brothers and one of their wives , had left the hut after us , but caught up . |
| 4 | They were a motley crew half a dozen young men in shabby clothes , some still wearing khaki tunics and caps and one of them with a placard across his chest saying : Ex-Service — please help . |
| 5 | She frequently made use of Coptic craftsmen and one of them , a leather-worker , who had been repairing a handbag she was particularly fond of , was bringing it to her flat with his small son when he was attacked by a gang of youths . |
| 6 | Because they 're not one of them will be two squares and one of them bill we be one and so you need to get used to working with them like that . |
| 7 | We go up the hill on the toboggans and you 're meant to use your brakes and one of us did , and we just went flying off into the raging snow . |
| 8 | ‘ Kenny had been given permission to fly up to Stockport later than the rest of the lads because one of his children was ill . |
| 9 | She quickly slipped ahead of the trolley pushers as one of them blocked the exit , manoeuvring his way through . |
| 10 | Possibly the latter had supported Queen Emma in plans that one of her sons , rather any of the offspring of Æthelred 's first consort , should succeed him . |
| 11 | This tragic game can go on for the rest of their lives or one of them can decide enough is enough and withdraw . |
| 12 | Hull magistrates heard the earrings were bought by Trading Standards Officer Lynne Howson a month after Mr Ratner told the Institute of Directors that one of his firm 's lines , a £4.99 sherry decanter , was ‘ total crap ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ We saw several venture companies and one of our first questions was : ‘ How much of the equity can we get ? ’ ' recalls Mr Pearch . |
| 14 | And they give you you get four keys and one of them is called the chauffeur 's key |
| 15 | She had big feet and one of her daughters was six feet tall , unusual in those days . |
| 16 | Mr Miles was found stabbed to death in the back garden of the home in Newtown that he shared with his parents and one of his brothers . |
| 17 | The first day Benguiat accused him — Parkinson printed up this sheet as a handout with which the finished examples had the logos that he was exploring in the lectures and one of them was the New York Times magazine , and of course Benguiat had done the original job for the New York Times and the magazine , the other magazine , so he thought that what Parkinson was showing was an example of a redesign , relettering of an existing logo , and perhaps he should n't of said that , you know . |
| 18 | Few would argue that his departure from the court will leave as big a gap as did those of the last two justices to retire : Thurgood Marshall , the first black on the court , and William Brennan , its liberal conscience through four decades and one of its finest minds in two centuries . |
| 19 | On our first visit I was left standing by these youngsters as one of them unearthed a good bag of finds ranging from Roman through to Georgian . |
| 20 | Kim encouraged terrorist activities and one of his followers was responsible for the bomb incident in Shanghai in 1932 , which caused Admiral Nomura Kichisaburo to lose an eye and Shigemitsu Mamoru a leg . |
| 21 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 22 | Two of their five sons and one of their four daughters died in infancy . |
| 23 | ‘ Then two older boys came along on bikes and one of them went off to get help . ’ |
| 24 | When she returned from one of the innumerable meetings and one of her daughters asked who had been present , her usual reply would be , ‘ Oh , the Great and the Good . |
| 25 | If things get really bad you MUST tell your parent(s) and one of your teachers . |
| 26 | We find this subgroup has precisely 12 patterns and one of them F 2 R 2 F 2 R 2 F 2 R 2 = ( F 2 R 2 ) 3 has the particularly simple effect of exchanging the positions of two pairs of edge pieces ( UF , DF ) ( UR , DR ) , as shown in Figure 7 . |
| 27 | erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on . |
| 28 | If there were two bridges and one of them said " Danger use other bridge " , then a person injured using the dangerous bridge would have no claim . |
| 29 | For instance , if you are cooking chops and one of them is burnt , most women end up eating it themselves . |
| 30 | In two of the window bays there are buckets to catch drips but one of them has overflowed and caused a puddle to form around it , discolouring and springing the parquet flooring , which looks burned in other places . |