Example sentences of "one [prep] [pron] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two senior research officers at the Home Office were also invited , and one of them made an excellent contribution . |
| 2 | At least six lived on well into their nineties , every one of them sharing an absolute hatred of old age . |
| 3 | This word can convey several meanings but one of them expresses an inner state of mind so torn between various options that it can not make up its mind . |
| 4 | One of them had an intestinal perforation and required surgery . |
| 5 | He imagined a full-page , black and white photo of two barechested men ( their chests shaved ) , photographed in daylight , walking down the street , gazing squarely at the camera , holding hands , one of them holding an alsatian straining at a leather leash . |
| 6 | Yet every month , only one of them releases an ovum ; the other holds back . |
| 7 | Next came four schoolboys , one of them carrying an open copy of the Koran placed upon a kind of platform of palm-sticks and covered with an embroidered kerchief . |
| 8 | There is a badly eroded sculpted tympanum and Chrisme above the doorway , here supported by angels , and some splendid capitals in the interior , one of them showing an elephant ( at a guess ) with a tongue that reaches to the ground ; as well as candy-striped , cruciform piers . |
| 9 | ‘ You can not go out at night without one of them making an obscene remark or getting his tackle out . |
| 10 | The dramatic account of how one of them survived an IRA ‘ barrack buster ’ mortar blitz is printed exclusively in this newspaper today . |
| 11 | One of you got an A B C ! |
| 12 | ‘ The nice thing about keeping it small and knowing each other well is that it 's very flexible ; if one of us has an emergency it does n't create problems or ill-feeling . ’ |
| 13 | But seated half-way down one side of the table and with no one opposite her sat an old lady . |