Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just too much for the American girl when they were faced one day with yet another torrential downpour . |
| 2 | Anyway they were born one place and moved one place and then they come to after I were born . |
| 3 | They were given one day to decide . |
| 4 | His urethral discharge and her vaginal discharge had both cleared by two weeks , and when they were seen one month after their original visit , there was no sign of infection or inflammation . |
| 5 | The patients were followed up over the one week period of the challenge and , for longterm tolerance ; they were seen one month later . |
| 6 | The Austrians returned in his absence , and were assisted in their reconquest by the Russians and the Italians themselves who were never more happy , it seems , than when they were assisting one despot to overthrow another . |
| 7 | At supper , now they were thirteen , they were allowed one tumbler , well watered . |
| 8 | Well they were knocking one night well gone twelve , about twenty to one I think it was , still banging and hammering , and I 'm sure if I rang him and said look you know pack it up this , he 'd , he 'd say oh I 'm sorry yeah and he will , but you should n't have to do that |
| 9 | They were saying one road 's closed . |
| 10 | Either the US could allow themselves to be convinced that they were fighting one war , in Vietnam and Korea ; that with practically unlimited US military and economic assistance the French could defeat the main Vietminh forces in Tonkin ; and that revolution or insurgency could be contained in the rest of the country . |
| 11 | The cold war may be over and dead , but spooks still rule OK — the US Central Intelligence Agency has warned more than 70 US defence , aerospace and financial companies that their industrial secrets are targets of French intelligence agents and diplomats , Defense Week reports , adding that the warning has caused Hughes Aircraft Co to drop plans to exhibit aerospace equipment at the Paris Air Show in June ; a 21-page French government document from about 1990 outlines US aerospace and defence corporate secrets in which French companies are interested , US officials say ; according to the Washington Post , Hughes officials said they were told one item the French memo lists is Hughes ' HS601 communications satellite ; French firms recently outbid Hughes to provide $258m in communications birds to Arab lands . |
| 12 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 13 | They were to have one son . |
| 14 | They were to have one son , Daniel , born in 1768 , and a daughter , Frances . |
| 15 | They were to have one son . |
| 16 | And they were attacking one man , while a woman , presumably his wife or daughter , was crying by the side of the street . |