Example sentences of "[vb past] one [noun] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mandy mused one evening as she and Charity sat out on their rickety porch eating salads and sweating . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the drivers that run this town , ’ muttered one politician as he tripped off into the driveway . |
| 3 | Ludens received one shock as he was returning to the cottage . |
| 4 | Ackroyd 's strange experience began one day as he looked out from his lonely signal box . |
| 5 | We watched one fellow as he probed the soft mud with a steel rod and then shouted excitedly . |
| 6 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 7 | Ana asked one afternoon as she sat with Maggie in the cool of the upstairs balcony . |
| 8 | ‘ The minds of many of these young offenders appear to have been numbed by greed and indifference to violence ’ , asserted one MP as he condemned ‘ the parents , indifferent to their children and utterly without social conscience ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ What we must hope and pray for , me boys , ’ he said one night as they dined alone on salad and cold meat , Ellie being out at a concert , ‘ is for a state of some permanence . |
| 10 | ‘ How very kind , ’ Nahum said one day as he was going through his morning correspondence . |
| 11 | ‘ This is only the beginning , you know , ’ he said one day as she walked with him round the garden . |