Example sentences of "one [noun] [art] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon a week he received tuition from Minton whom he first saw seated on a windowsill , hugging his legs and looking as young as some of the students he taught . |
| 2 | On one occasion a boy I rather liked looked at me and said to his group , ‘ Bellezza d'asino ’ ( beauty of a donkey ) , which , strange as it may seem , was meant in Parma as a compliment . |
| 3 | The wife stops in , and one night a week she goes out with her women mates . |
| 4 | Because er most of the year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers , and then one day a year you send the little so and sos out to knock on peoples doors to ask for money er and sweets and things like that . |
| 5 | So for the rest of the month I was in charge of wages , piece rates , training , negotiations and all the rest of it , and then one day a month I was regularly calling on the same customers in Bloomsbury and I was collecting money , selling the goods and so on , which I think was a very important part of my continued training . |
| 6 | One day a week we provide only rescue cover , this only for experienced sailors ; this gives us time to keep both boards and staff in good condition , and it 's a good time for you to explore . |
| 7 | He 'd decided that if Pilger was only going to be there one day a week he could share an office with Hayling . |
| 8 | Incidentally , you will be very pleased to hear that ( according to British nutritionist Celia Wright ) for one day a week you can and should feast . |
| 9 | ‘ It was partly wanting to say to my children that on one day a week I could always take them to school . |
| 10 | At least one day a week I like ( who said ‘ Liar ’ ) to devote to my chores around the house and garden . |
| 11 | He has one complaint every time he comes and sees us . |
| 12 | It 's about the one thing a year he does do and crows about . |
| 13 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 14 | On the one hand the approach I am proposing would lead the learners to realize ( in the sense of actualize ) grammatical potential in contexts of use , that is to say that it would lead to effective behaviour . |
| 15 | I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the men I know who were desperate to experience fatherhood and regarded a woman 's desire for children as paramount when it came to choosing a partner . |
| 16 | She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed having on the premises ; most of her other visitors she merely tolerated and a few of them had the power to make her feel violated . |
| 17 | They took a soaking no doubt relieved in an attitude of ‘ rather you than me , mate ’ as they watched the canoeists jump and sit in one motion the way they had practised boarding . |