Example sentences of "one [conj] [num] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Past experience suggests that one or two of them will come to rest in the belly of a fox , and of those that survive several , I fear , will turn out to be cockerels . |
| 2 | The administration of the Famine was remarkable for the absence of nearly all leading Bolsheviks , apart from a few speeches from one or two of them . |
| 3 | By definition , if there are hundreds and thousands of them , I must meet one or two of them as I go around , but I never do . |
| 4 | One or two of them are still open , and it 's still pretty bright with all their lights and that . |
| 5 | One or two of them , taken through the windows of Harriet Shakespeare 's house , showed a blurred back view of a fair-haired boy . |
| 6 | ‘ Now then , ’ he changed the subject , ‘ let's have one or two of them big fellers . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I thought one or two of them were good , ’ I said . |
| 8 | Contrary to rumour our Clubreps are not Masters of the Universe , although even we admit that one or two of them seem superhuman . |
| 9 | This means that in larger groups most of the interactions and mutual grooming go on between members of female pairs while the male only grooms with one or two of them . |
| 10 | Of the nasty strategies , one or two of them began by increasing in frequency , but their prosperity , like that of Cheat in my simulation , was short-lived . |
| 11 | Processes such as these produce a great range of minor surface structures and other curiosities , but unfortunately , there is only space here to mention one or two of them . |
| 12 | Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer . |
| 13 | Okay , one or two of them are a little contrived , but they still make for a cracking package — all in one load too ! |
| 14 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 15 | It is a chance to build relationships with the kids and to get close to just one or two of them . |
| 16 | One or two of them may grab your arms while a third gets ready to hit you from the front . |
| 17 | ‘ One or two of them taunted her about Grianan , but she always responded fiercely , ’ says Nuala . |
| 18 | ‘ When we 've made celebrities of one or two of them , then people will want to watch . ’ |
| 19 | It was odd when he came to think about it , but every now and again one or two of them would be posted , yet the five men who had accompanied him from Cranwell , and whose beds were at the far end of the hut , were still here . |
| 20 | Choose one or two of them . |
| 21 | A Maniak chapter had been through last week , and one or two of them were still around , enjoying the yakuza hospitality at the ze Schluderpacheru place . |
| 22 | When friends asked me out I had to turn them down and one or two of them stopped calling round . |
| 23 | It may be that one of my children might want one or two of them , but nobody these days has the houses to hang pictures in the way Bunny and I have done , and I 've always known that the public will eventually enjoy them . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was , in fact , one or two of them said , you know we like ripping the |
| 25 | I know one or two of them try and work it on the phone … but I like to go out and have a look and know what 's going on . ’ |
| 26 | Following the precedent of other studies , but also the dictates of the survey itself ( which showed that most employers who do engage fixed-term contract or agency workers engage only one or two of them ) , we conducted our analysis largely in terms of a comparison of " users " and " non-users " . |
| 27 | But erm I th they are worried certainly , one or two of them are worried , but er some of this equipment is left on , and left on unnecessarily and we ought to be encouraging people to switch off what is n't |
| 28 | And even you 'll probably get one or two of them wrong occasionally but most of them 'll be right and when you get one or two of them wrong the teacher 'll say Oh not C K like desk for example not C K on the end of desk because it 's got this letter S in it as well . |
| 29 | And even you 'll probably get one or two of them wrong occasionally but most of them 'll be right and when you get one or two of them wrong the teacher 'll say Oh not C K like desk for example not C K on the end of desk because it 's got this letter S in it as well . |
| 30 | She 's turned one or two of them round , you know , to face the wall . |