Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You was n't allowed to smoke — that was one privilege they did normally let you have : if you were over fourteen you were allowed up to four cigarettes a day . |
| 2 | Eventually it became too much , and one afternoon we looked down to see the bowwab moving out . |
| 3 | One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink . |
| 4 | One afternoon we went up to Croydon St. in Karori to look at our old house . |
| 5 | One afternoon we went together to see an Italian filmed opera in a small cinema off Grafton Street which specialised in foreign films . |
| 6 | The nearest pub , a matter of some importance to me , and shop , were in Duns , and one afternoon we travelled there to re-stock depleted supplies . |
| 7 | Then one afternoon she came in smiling . |
| 8 | Then one afternoon she came by and she asked my what was up . |
| 9 | One afternoon I went out with another girl for a walk , with the idea of finding a quiet spot in the meadow we called the Big Field , to read and write letters . |
| 10 | One afternoon I went out riding . |
| 11 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 12 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 13 | One afternoon he came home when she had the tape on . |
| 14 | Then one afternoon he called in . |
| 15 | This year , Mr Hume said , one perk which stands out is that offered by Lonrho . |
| 16 | According to one story he started out as a liveryman in England and ran away to sea after stealing his mistress 's jewels . |
| 17 | One cottage I stayed in without electricity or water saw 11 of us standing eagerly over a one-ring Calor gas burner in the morning waiting for a kettle to boil for coffee , when one of our party came into the kitchen , picked up the kettle and took it into the bathroom to wash his face . |
| 18 | She continues to say that there is one kind she does not like and that she is going to convey what it is by a process of thought transfer . |
| 19 | As for Gazza , I for one hope we do n't buy him . |
| 20 | One case which comes close to misrepresentation is English Columbia 's recording of the Introduction and Allegro by Ravel , recorded in late 1923 , which was alleged to be ‘ conducted ’ by the composer . |
| 21 | He went with one truck which drove on to the town of Travnik where refugees were coming under shell-fire . |
| 22 | One fan who did n't mind the crush was student Allan Brett who scooped £10,000 after winning the National Computer Games Championships . |
| 23 | When the pair finish one car they go back to the beginning of their segment and start on another . |
| 24 | He says , only one girlfriend I 've ever had netball queen and how many other people has he snogged . |
| 25 | There is only one equation we have not considered so far and that is eqn ( 4.3 ) , which will probably look more familiar in another form . |
| 26 | To keep herself from sleep she suspended herself ingeniously upon a large cross which hung in her room … and should this fail she attached her hair [ the one lock she had not shaved off to the nail in the feet of her Christ so that the least relaxation would inflict terrible suffering on her … |
| 27 | I said to him there 's fifty , well there 's sixty one pound I think on there . |
| 28 | She had always prided herself on her resoluteness and fortitude but there was one fear she had never managed to conquer — a fear of rats which dated back to an incident when she was three years old . |
| 29 | ‘ Look , there is one murder we know very little about — Vechey 's . |
| 30 | But the one album I 've ever had that is n't an irritating is it 's , each side of that tape is forty five minutes long and you can fit it , apart from about er right at the very end of one song you can fit the whole album on a C ninety . |