Example sentences of "one [noun] [pron] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea . |
| 2 | One evening he asked for one with his coffee , which I gave him . |
| 3 | As a consequence there is no one body which speaks for teachers or presents a considered and constructive view of education . |
| 4 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 5 | One day they went for a walk with Sinclair along by the river . |
| 6 | One day we went for a tour around the mill and the lasting memory that I have is the terrible clattering of the looms and the speed at which the never idle operators worked to ensure that their piece of material was faultless . |
| 7 | One day we went for an excursion with my godson George and his young parents , George clutching teddy , nearly as big as himself . |
| 8 | After lunch one day we went for a walk in the nearby woods , my mother remaining at home with the two younger children and the rest of us accompanying my father and my aunt . |
| 9 | ‘ One day we went for a walk in woods to the north of London near Barnet , I think , I no longer recall the name , except that they were in those days very pretty and lonely woods for a place so near London . |
| 10 | In science it is not always possible to find one theory which accounts for and describes every aspect of an event . |
| 11 | ‘ One song they went for was ‘ Space Time ’ . |
| 12 | But she had a strange temperament and we Were told by one man who worked for John Sayer and had helped to break her in that she was n't right in the head . |
| 13 | The one thing we know for certain is that life has arisen once , here on this very planet . |
| 14 | One thing we know for certain about global warming is that — whether fields get drier or damper , whether temperatures soar or only fluctuate — our crops will have to adjust quickly . |
| 15 | One thing we knew for sure — beyond here was the unknown , and it looked big . |
| 16 | For one thing they arranged for continuity of care , before , during and after the birth . |
| 17 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 18 | One thing she knew for sure : Alain would be married long before she was . |
| 19 | On the one hand it provides for the possibility of improved techniques for bringing about learning ; on the other it provides a rationale whereby such techniques can be explicitly identified as exemplars of more general principles of teaching . |
| 20 | ‘ Harthover Place ’ is now a Field Studies Council Centre and one April I enroled for a ‘ spring birds ’ weekend . |
| 21 | At one school I attended for a short while , very much for ‘ young ladies ’ , the headmistress descended unexpectedly on a class , with a visitor , and found it in uproar . |
| 22 | At one time they hoped for a family . |
| 23 | There must , in fact , be few marriages in which temporary sexual difficulties do not arise and , as we have seen , at any one time they exist for a fair proportion of married adults . |
| 24 | One reward she decided for herself was her hour of ‘ p and q ’ on a Sunday . |
| 25 | In one speech he called for the creation of several " Hong Kongs " along China 's coast . |
| 26 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |