Example sentences of "the [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 She glanced in the long mirror and , apparently satisfied , opened an oak chest and took out a drab fustian cloak of the type customarily worn by maidservants of the lower order , the which she had borrowed earlier from the servants ' quarters on a pretext .
2 The one we 've seen on t , yes .
3 Occasionally … very , very rarely in fact … there is a vocal effect such as the one we 've heard , such as the one that Mr Devlin heard .
4 and six doors up , six doors down from the one we 've sold and get a coloured photograph so that 's the next campaign going out .
5 ‘ It 's bigger than the one we 've got , ’ said his Mum .
6 We , the people who 'll have the next generation of children , we want a better world than the one we 've got from all of you !
7 What 's wrong with the one we 've got ? ’
8 Well I think the one we 've got is actually longer than the one you 've got .
9 Well the one we 've got above our in fact , there 's one next door to us going for sale at the moment and they 're asking advertised prices else you 'll be getting about fifty thousand on top that 's ours .
10 Is it opposite to the one we 've got
11 But I just wanted to see what it had downstairs , it was typically new , it 's a , a lounge not much bigger than the one we 've got now erm in fact I think the lounge and the dining room area was probably a little bit smaller
12 How high is the one we 've got at the back ?
13 Believe it , yeah it 's in better condition than the one we 've got !
14 But they have to in our garden because erm I know the first she was a the one we 've got and the first day me husband brought her he went up to fetch her out the kennel and she sort of saw this cat and it 's a
15 Ah this is the one we 've got .
16 Cos the other , that 's it , that 's , what 's the one we 've got up by us ?
17 ‘ There 's only one ride that will get us back to the east of the Swamp and that 's the one we 've come by .
18 In order for the vast pressure vessel ( the one we had seen being manufactured in France ) to negotiate the narrow village streets , it was necessary for the Board to buy up the frontages of over thirty houses .
19 We talked and gradually came to a decision that was quite contrary to the one we had held when we hauled ourselves out of our clothes a half-hour before .
20 This same process is the one we have adopted as the main teaching method for the less academic and less well motivated school pupil .
21 This same process is the one we have adopted as the main teaching method for the less academic and less well-motivated school pupil …
22 It was invented in the 1950s by psychologists , and solves a more general problem than the one we have posed .
23 For an economy such as the one we have imagined in which there is imperfect information in the sense we have described , the relationship between aggregate supply and the general level of prices can be depicted as it is in figure 4.3 .
24 Where is the one we have come to see ?
25 Obviously , as you will see by the one we have enclosed with these notes they have cost the Society a fairly substantial amount of money and although we are still allowing you to have them free of charge we ask that you use them very sparingly Thank you .
26 Tonight , Marc 's family said the verdict was the one they 'd hoped for .
27 A sunflower belled upwards not fifty metres away ; the one they 'd passed was twice as far behind them .
28 In the area of closest scrutiny only 14 per cent of males ( 45/311 ) and 19 per cent of females ( 75/390 ) aged over ten at the time of the 1861 census were living in the same house as the one they had inhabited in 1851 ; but many of them had moved only a short distance .
29 And the marriage that was being described was different from the one they had known , indeed bore almost no resemblance to it , and there was no-one to tell them this .
30 It must be the one they had found in the lock and she had handed it to Darren to relock the door .
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