Example sentences of "one of [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Send one of them to talk to this chap Jordan — Fowler will do it very well ; he 'd have been more than a match for the Ancient Mariner . |
| 2 | For ten days after that first sighting from the top of the Turkman Gate , I trawled the teeming alleys of Old Delhi , trying to identify the houses of the eunuchs and attempting to persuade one of them to talk to me . |
| 3 | Afterwards , I eyed the other pedestrians in Soho Square with more than usual paranoia , ready for any one of them to turn into a crack-crazed mugger . |
| 4 | Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died . |
| 5 | They had discovered that Graham had drawn three false passports , in the names of Michael Green , Miles Grant and Mark Gordon , and used one of them to fly to Beirut . |
| 6 | If there are two owners , there may also be a restriction recorded with regard to the ability of one of them to dispose of the property . |
| 7 | A creative use for a pair of extension microphones used for recording location sound in stereo is to position one of them to concentrate on the foreground sound , leaving the pick-up of more general background sound to the other microphone . |
| 8 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 9 | Or would you like one of us to sit with you ? ’ |
| 10 | Well that would enable us to go to pic one of us to go to pictures and get a penny bag of sweets , or a pennyworth of fruits , or a pennyworth of stale buns . |
| 11 | You would n't like one of us to stay with you tonight ? ’ |