Example sentences of "one [pron] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He put a hand in a pocket and brought out a key , the duplicate of the one I had been given , which fitted both front and back doors . |
| 2 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 3 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 4 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 5 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 6 | Worse one I had was to go and get some elbow grease . |
| 7 | having said that , the last one I had was er I had at le , I think at least four years ago . |
| 8 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 9 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 10 | Three years later , the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta , a very considerable achievement , one which had been yet another adventure , the sort that provided — like the Atlantic cable saga — the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned . |
| 11 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 12 | His was a series which I selected , one which had been turned down by one of my more ‘ authentic ’ colleagues , but it was a wonderful success . |
| 13 | In the main square ( Largo do Fonte ) in Monte there is a shrine with the Virgin of Monte in it , built in 1897 to replace the original one which had been destroyed when one of the large chestnut trees fell on it . |
| 14 | 3 ) , similar to one which had been advanced before the High Court of Australia in Jago v. District Court of New South Wales ( 1989 ) 168 C.L.R. 23 . |
| 15 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |
| 16 | The feature usually described as predominant in Gothic buildings is the use of the pointed arch in place of the semi-circular one which had been employed in both Roman and Romanesque structures . |
| 17 | The measure of life events used was one which had been developed by Brown over a number of years and represents a major methodological improvement over previous approaches . |
| 18 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 19 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 20 | Later , letters were written to Sir Robert Cecil , Secretary of State , requesting a pardon and leave to return — by one who had been ‘ … forced to forsake my country through the malice of my enemy ’ . |
| 21 | He who has gone through life without being tested is one who had been considered unworthy ever to gain the victory over fortune . |
| 22 | He was quite a personable young man , but the Waaf I recognised instantly as the one who had been ejected from Hut 4 at Bourn for being dirty . |
| 23 | Agitated , Vincent went running to a painter called Weissenbruch to see if he was another one who had been poisoned by the gossip circulating against him . |
| 24 | I was the one who had been attacked , not Richard . |
| 25 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 26 | A brown kisscurl fell over his forehead ; he chortled often , showing the sly , boyish grin and the self-satisfied air of one who had been told once too often that he was a lovable rascal . |
| 27 | She was the one who had been knitting . |
| 28 | Her dark grey eyes in her pale face had the look of one who had been crying fairly often and recently . |
| 29 | He was the one who had been inside me , so that I suddenly knew , like a reprieve , a baby was coming , my links were strengthening . |
| 30 | As they approached , she recognised the leader of the group as being one who had been with the previous rafting party . |