Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father Barry said : ‘ She said the boys were skating on the ice , it cracked and one of them fell in . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |
| 3 | It happened that one of the doctors practised hypnosis , and the sister of the ward concerned approached him and asked him if he could do anything to calm this patient who was disrupting the ward routine and upsetting the nurses . |
| 4 | It appeared that one of the main sources of the bishops ' opposition was the authoritarian nature of the legislation . |
| 5 | It appeared that one of Edna 's married daughters had split up from her husband and needed somewhere to go with her small children . |
| 6 | It appeared that one of the bailies of St. Andrews was completely subservient to a Mr. Dick , who was the burgh schoolmaster and the bailie 's brother-in-law . |
| 7 | It then , in October , expressed its concern that a high proportion of courses in subjects other than business studies were being turned down , and it suggested that one of the reasons making it difficult for such courses to be approved might be that ‘ the Council 's present structure of honours and ordinary degrees was not so appropriate for courses in those fields ’ as in science and technology . |
| 8 | It remained as one of the Abbey 's treasures until it was stolen some years ago . |
| 9 | I knew exactly where it stood because one of our pampas bushes was there and , in the middle of it , a coloured ball of Tony 's . |