Example sentences of "one of [pers pn] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Elizabeth 's handwriting is as beautiful and legible as that of Haricleia Cavafy is crabbed and hideous , so it is one of hers that I now copy out :
2 and it was n't one of ours that dropped their whip
3 Well in fact it I would be very surprised A if he was one of ours and B if he was successful .
4 If it suits , you can have one of them while you 're here . ’
5 The giants had taken Tara for their own and when Tealtaoich and the others had fled to the Forest Court , Nuadu had gone with them , neither quite one of them nor quite not one of them , but feeling a cautious kinship with them and discovering , with cynical amusement , that they were looking to him to lead them back .
6 Michael , Managing Director at the Brewery has one of them but does not know whether it was Lance Henly 's , but is delighted to learn that it could have been .
7 How I would love to be proved wrong by any one of them but parents and boys deserve my honest opinion , however much they may hate me for it .
8 And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it .
9 Harry ran across their tracks the other day ; he killed one of them but he 's a bit like that .
10 But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders .
11 I knew there there they had a lot of trouble with one of them but nearer Helen 's end .
12 I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not .
13 They used , they used to be about ten quid and you , we all thought it was really good value and went to all of them but erm they 've gone up to like eighteen pounds well that was the last one I went to last year so some of them are twenty two and I paid thirty for one of them but that was at the erm Savoy Hotel that little bluebird one , that 's a real debs ' ball .
14 I bet ya it was one of them that put that out of order .
15 I said to one of them that if I wanted to take advantage of them it would be then .
16 ‘ Well , one of them that caused the trouble , he has n't got a father , you see , so therefore … and he was mucking about and she told him to get out and of course he answered her back , which I do n't think she could take really .
17 and erm oh calcium hydroxide is perhaps a more interesting one but you pick one of them that you 're happy with and take it through here so what would happen with let's see I mean you would n't actually drip sodium an acid onto sodium if you 've got any sense .
18 ‘ So it was one of them that kidnapped us ? ’ said Twoflower .
19 m er mother of one of them that was killed you see .
20 And it was just after he 'd flicked through one of them that Detective Constable Hodges ( blast his eyes ! ) had come in , walked over to the newspaper stall , and picked up the top copy but one from the Daily Mirror pile .
21 Every one of them that they were gon na do next year .
22 free to come and go and er there is a contribution that 's held at the back , but here in , in the talk it 's highlighting their various ways , this is one of them that we can keep spiritually awake is by being aware of the need for financial contributions , Jehovah has done much for us through his organization and we can show love for him by full support with our time and finances and then another one look stay awake by showing love to you and act loyal sometimes it 's easier to show love to some in the congregation than others , we naturally have an affinity for one another and certain types of personalities seemed to gel with others do n't they ?
23 Aye , but there was n't one of them that went in by
24 This was , this is what it said last night , one of them that lost the weight said , she said it must of been her , yeah
25 it to pieces and , see if he can , of course it 's one of them that you ca n't put back together , like
26 there 's one of them that messed up both of us
27 There were deep shadows across the room now and his face was in one of them so she could n't see his eyes clearly .
28 I think Freud would say though however that these are more like the th the was talking about religion , now clearly if something is a outlawing it is n't gon na make much difference to it , or if anything it 's , it 's just gon na make it er , er make it more difficult , but there are certain types of religion and Judaism is one of them where th this very pattern you 're talking about did occur and here Freud is er probably standing on , on firm ground , for reasons which I 'll explain in my lectures I do n't wan na take up too much time , but I have done a bit of research on this myself and as you will see , erm there 's , there are good reasons for thinking that Freud was certainly right about some of those and we certainly know that a monotheistic and , and an absolutely rigidly monotheistic religion appeared in Ancient Egypt as erm Andrea said , just before erm the er reign of this heretic er heretic , heretic pharaoh one of whose er near descendants , I forget how he was related now , erm was originally called Tutamkhatan and then was forced to change his name to Tutankhamen and he was dug up by Howard Carter in nineteen twenty two or something er and er the Tutankhamen is called Tutankhamen and not Tutamkhatan is that there was a religious .
29 there , were one of them where they were walking round we with wet pants , you know , ol old people an that .
30 To list 10 pleasurable activities immediately available and to engage in one of them when the urge to binge occurs , such as having a bath or telephoning a friend
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