Example sentences of "one [noun sg] i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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1 | At any one instant I can call the electron there A and the electron here B if I want to . |
2 | With one blow I could wipe that expression and the flesh that paints it right from their skulls . |
3 | One mistress I could ignore — but he 's now on his sixth . |
4 | On Sunday mornings Auntie would bring it back clean , cook lunch — which always included the one vegetable I can stomach , ie beans-in-a-tin because they 're not disgusting green — and afterwards she and I would play the test match while Pa worked on his sermon . |
5 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
6 | There was one piece I could n't fix on . |
7 | They always want to know why it was built , which is of course the one question I ca n't answer . |
8 | I think there was one question I 'll I 'll root it out for next time erm and I was really stunned on it I might be okay on it now . |
9 | What one question I should have asked |
10 | One second I 'll come to you , we 've got more talking to do before I do come to you . |
11 | All of them would live more happily if they and the world remained in ignorance , and to try to achieve that I would give them the one gift I could . |
12 | I I have only one point I would like to raise , Mrs , and this is whether or not er you are in a position to give me any comments er in relation to the er colony of Great Crested Newts in this pond . |
13 | At one point I would have to answer a long-distance phone call , which would keep me out of the room for half an hour . |
14 | Erm tt there 's er one point I would like to make , when I , when I made that comment about she 's only the wife , and I 'll just clarify why I said that and this is it 's amus a few years ago some , somebody who was , we were taking a policy out with right was , came to me and was , was talking and making arrangements to , to come and see us and he patronisingly said erm and your husband 'll be there , and I patronisingly said back , and you 'll be bringing your wife , because of the way that he came across to me and I , I mean |
15 | Finally , there is one point I must make — it concerns what some have called ‘ the God bit ’ . |
16 | One point I 'd like to make to er , |
17 | There 's just one point I 'd make on erm , the first one , regarding the , th , Wiltshire and Thamesdown Racial Equality Council . |
18 | One point I 'd just like to add to what David was just saying there was that when you were talking about those orientation problems , when we were making the film of the children at Brickwall , what was brought home to me very strongly was that these sort of problems can arise in mathematics , as well as in reading . |
19 | ‘ One evening I could stand it no longer . |
20 | Eddie laughed : ‘ The one place I wo n't remotely get asthma is in the Caribbean sun . ’ ) |
21 | Though that 's the one place I would n't recommend if you want to keep well away from the red tide . ’ |
22 | I had one place I used to go sometimes , when Angie was off with her friends . |
23 | It 's the one place I can be sure you 'll be perfectly safe . ’ |
24 | I felt torn between the two — one moment I 'd be scolding them , and the next I 'd be scolding her . |
25 | There Was only one conclusion I could come to : heavier baits and indicators were too heavy for the bream to carry away with the bait sucked to the edge of their lips , so they had to grip with their lips to manage it . |
26 | One gentleman I ought to mention to you in this connection — my friend Mr. Michael Barry tells me — is the writer in ‘ Property and Finance ’ , which some of you may have read . |
27 | On one occasion I can even recall a bitch stoat emerging while carrying one of her brood . |
28 | Mind yer , I do n't s'pose fer one minute I 'll get the job . |
29 | I 'm going to investigate , see if I ca n't do a conv I do n't think for one minute I will but it 's possible do a conversion er into erm the box type . |
30 | ‘ I do n't believe for one minute I 'd have been the saviour , but I 'd have loved the chance to make a contribution in my country 's hour of need . |