Example sentences of "one [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had an hour to get back to the rendezvous with their submarine when the storm strengthened , tossing them high on one wave before they slithered off its back to meet the next great sea , all the time in danger of broaching-to across the waves that could then roll them over . |
| 2 | Suddenly , I was on the top of one wave as she came thundering over the next . |
| 3 | there are two , there are two ways you could look at it , either , either you could say , you could say yes or , in , in one sentence if you have any barrs on membership at all you are preventing competition , but that would be er a highly unreal statement to make , erm , and what you 're , what you 're saying is that if you look at it that way , the prevention restriction or distortion of competition must be some er malign or bad prevention restriction or distortion and er there 's nothing bad about having objective criteria which would indeed erm prevent erm these people from competing cos they ca n't get into this , into the sugar market , er it will prevent them from competing in the sugar market , but that 's not the sort of prevention article eighty five is talking about . |
| 4 | One afternoon while I was in the USA , I received four obscene telephone calls . |
| 5 | All I knew was that one afternoon while I was at the office in London someone poured petrol through my letter-box at Seaview , along with a note warning me that if I did n't get out of G.W. Fashions there would be other similarly unpleasant incidents to look forward to , and that next time the petrol would be accompanied by a lighted rag . ’ |
| 6 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 7 | Adam asked one afternoon after she 'd flung the phone back into its rest , exasperated beyond measure by the persistence of one particular reporter . |
| 8 | ‘ The music company wanted new product fast before the headster time ended so I dashed it off one afternoon after I 'd dropped some A. Goodness , some of the interpretations people came up with ! |
| 9 | ‘ You make my parents say very interesting things , ’ she said to Eve one afternoon as they sat in Benny 's bedroom , and Eve marvelled over being allowed to use an electric fire all for themselves . |
| 10 | Ruth asked one afternoon as they sprawled under a shady carob tree , hot and exhausted after climbing up through the narrow streets of a village to find a goat track that led up a hillside to a secluded olive grove . |
| 11 | Late one afternoon as I was packing some old boots I had begged with wet slack and tea leaves to use as fuel on the fire the door was flung open and Dad stumbled in . |
| 12 | Mrs Redmond called to see Julia one afternoon as she sometimes did now and Julia told her of the conversation about mourning . |
| 13 | Ana asked one afternoon as she sat with Maggie in the cool of the upstairs balcony . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , ’ said Jane one afternoon as he emerged for the first time , blinking in the sun , ‘ how 's life in Lotus land ? ’ |
| 15 | In response to this concern Spielberger retested 197 students one hour after they had watched a stressful film depicting gory accidents and concluded that the questionnaire was indeed sensitive to acute changes in anxiety . |
| 16 | — ( 1 ) The proceedings on any Motion made in the House by a member of the Government for varying or supplementing the provisions of this Order shall , if not previously concluded , be brought to a conclusion one hour after they have been commenced , and paragraph ( 1 ) of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) shall apply to the proceedings . |
| 17 | Then the inner sanctum ; precisely one hour after he 'd first been called ; he was sure it was deliberate . |
| 18 | Try to go to bed only when you 're tired but do not stay up past a certain critical time , say one hour after you would normally go to bed . |
| 19 | I knew all about you one hour after you left my office . ’ |
| 20 | Better still , if you are in a position to present these baits on tackle to fish you can see , then you may learn more about fish behaviour in one hour than you would in a season of fishing ‘ blind ’ . |
| 21 | I put the central heating on for one hour before the kids go to bed and one hour before they get up . |
| 22 | Children should also work for only one hour before they start school . |
| 23 | Get there early — at least one hour before you expect to see the badgers — and do n't walk over the sett or across the entrances . |
| 24 | Never serve cheese cold , take it out of the fridge at least one hour before it is needed and allow it to come to room temperature still wrapped . |
| 25 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 26 | Paul Biddle squandered another chance for Milton on seventy one minutes as he put the ball wide from close range and then with ten minutes remaining , Fairmile offered themselves a glimmer of hope as Wayne Glossop fired home through a ruck of players . |
| 27 | Whatever the outcome , this is one play where you can truly say it is n't over till the fat lady ( or in this case , the fat man ) sings . |
| 28 | While , modern techniques in printing are revolutionizing newspaper production , many different people will still have worked on just one story before you read it . |
| 29 | And that did n't surprise Graham one bit as he bluntly admitted : ‘ I 've got tired players on my hands , and we 've only been playing five weeks . |
| 30 | So there is this simplicity going in one direction while we 've got this sort of tritone bass line going in another . |