Example sentences of "the [indef pn] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | The one I keep my stones in . |
2 | Mm that 's the one I got her . |
3 | So I found myself in one of those " Catch 22 " situations and I chose the lesser one , and the one I thought I could defend . |
4 | You know , the one I told you about — She asked me to cut her toenails and give her feet a wash . ’ |
5 | He 's the one I told you about , who can see in the dark . |
6 | The one I told you about . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | the only one I like him in , the one I like him in was the |
9 | The one I saw it was the same plain . |
10 | I said that 's the one I said you should do . |
11 | That militant Forbes — you know , the one I warned you about last week — has called all the food and beverage staff out on strike ! ’ |
12 | Yeah if that one , that Elizabeth Terrace one is , is the one I think it is which is the one fairly near the end in that in that bottom , bottom row I think the live in the first one , they still live in the first one on the corner . |
13 | Because this is the one I want you to be particularly be conscious of . |
14 | I did shock him with one answer , cos he he was expecting a totally different answer to the one I gave him which was correct , and you know that is unusual for me , but er I did shock him with one , but other than that it was erm it was er an excellent input all the way through the day , and they explained the differences and why they er approved some products and not the others , things like that , it was er spot on . |
15 | ‘ The one I gave you for Christmas ? ’ |
16 | The one I gave you last week ? |
17 | Log , that 's the one I gave you on Monday morning . |
18 | If Muldowney 's is the most adventurous and forward-looking , Holloway 's is the one I feel I can take to my heart . |