Example sentences of "one of they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your parents are legally responsible for you and one of them ought to know about anything that might affect your health , either emotionally or physically . |
| 2 | Whereas the district in which we live is under an agreement between the three great companies — the Midland being one — that not one of them shall promote a railway in the district without the consent of all three companies ; the continuation of the Bishop 's Castle line is now saddled with the further condition that it shall not be made independently of the Corvedale line , whereas a proposal was made by one of the largest shareholders in the Cambrian to complete it independently of any other line . |
| 3 | The typical economic variables used in empirical studies , variables such as output , prices and interest rates , are such that it is usually possible to think of some reason why any one of them might exert an independent influence on another . |
| 4 | If one knight became separated from the rest of his team he might find five or six opponents all bearing down on him at once , and one of them might strike him in the back . |
| 5 | We snatched opportunities when we could , when my children were staying with friends or even , once , and extra dangerously , when they were asleep ( though the fear that one of them might wake put me off so I did n't try that again ) . |
| 6 | The heel of one of them might massage his arm or the rough texture of his cheek . |
| 7 | The hovering clerk at Hussey 's back was watching them narrowly every moment , as though one of them might elude him when he came to gather them up again . |
| 8 | Any one of them might have taken her away . |
| 9 | And if the pirates sleep on shore tonight , one of them might have an unpleasant surprise ! ’ |
| 10 | The police took the immediate neighbours into their confidence out of sheer necessity , hoping one of them might have seen or heard something significant the previous Tuesday ; but none had . |
| 11 | Any one of them might have been used for an unlawful occasion , but , if so , the most diligent inquiries failed to bring it to light . |
| 12 | If they live near to Mrs Richards 's villa , then one of them might have slipped down in the confusion to see what he could find in the surgery . ’ |
| 13 | One of them might dare to do something but if you used your head — you learn in time — you 'd be all right . |
| 14 | It probably wo n't get us very far , but you never know , one of them might come up with something . ’ |
| 15 | Every now and then one of them would stand up on the sofa and trample restlessly round like a dog resettling itself into its sleeping place . |
| 16 | These events hastened moves towards a formal military alliance of the Western powers , and in April 1949 , 12 ( later 15 ) powers signed the North Atlantic Treaty , which set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) under which the signatories agreed that an attack on any one of them would lead to whatever action was deemed necessary , including the " use of armed force " ( CORE , pp. 85–6 ) . |
| 17 | Any one of them would bring in a good profit . |
| 18 | Any one of them would shove an ice-pick in her back , sunny side up , if there was the slightest chance of her saying a word . |
| 19 | ‘ Shelley was elevated to the Bible this morning , ’ one of them would whisper to the other , but they were fond of Mabel and would never hurt her . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh man , I 've had these pants on so long , there are potatoes growing in them , ’ one of them would start off . |
| 21 | Any one of them would love to take away the £1,000 winner 's cheque , won last year by Bristol Amalgamation , but first they 'll have to beat the other hopefuls on what could be a bumper match . |
| 22 | Ruddock , already talking of retirement as he was led , still numb with disbelief , into the night , knew one of them would pay the ultimate price . |
| 23 | He hoped that only one of them would accompany Taheb and himself to the door , and he hoped that person would be Nephthys . |
| 24 | Now , if you consider all possible ways in which the rocks of Mont Blanc could have been thrown together , it is true that only one of them would make Mont Blanc as we know it . |
| 25 | I am sure that every one of them would want that extra money to come to West Yorkshire , as I do . |
| 26 | ‘ I was afraid one of them would stay , ’ he said . |
| 27 | In each test , one of them would don a mask painted with either normal-sized eyes or extra-large ones , and then walk directly towards a basking iguana . |
| 28 | The feeling in the dressing rooms after the first round was that one of them would collect the Cup . |
| 29 | Sometimes one of them would leap to his feet and dance a jig before falling over . |
| 30 | Er one of them would melt . |