Example sentences of "one 's [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Report of the Consultative Committee on Continuation Schools ( no doubt under the influence of Sadler ) quoted him approvingly when he wrote that apprentices should learn ‘ the truth of the maxim that the meaning of life is not to rule but to render service to one 's neighbour , service to one 's calling , service to one 's native country , service to truth and to justice ’ . |
| 2 | The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ . |
| 3 | Because one 's involved whether one likes it or not , just by caring for the person concerned . ’ |
| 4 | Thus , anger may militate against sexual satisfaction in oneself or prevent one 's allowing satisfaction to a partner by its own effect ; or the guilt underlying anger may similarly impede love-making/relationships ; or sexual pleasure may promote guilt which evinces itself as anger which … |
| 5 | ‘ No one 's seen the speedboat . |
| 6 | ‘ If only one could recapture one 's lost youth . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sure no one 's trying to kidnap my horse , ’ Young said , but with a note of doubt in his voice that was a triumph for Zak . |
| 8 | ‘ No one 's invited you to this party ! ’ |
| 9 | You could say it is envy , and indeed that is partly true , And I wo n't pretend that a factor in one 's accepting such an invitation is not the thought of spending a week in a grand hotel . |
| 10 | No , her right one 's hanging down a little bit . |
| 11 | While " functional literacy " guarantees the capacity to engage in normal communication within one 's given " culture or group " , it does not guarantee the capacity to distinguish between good and bad in literature . |
| 12 | The fake tans , fixed smiles and suburban kitsch of ballroom dancing are so obviously comic , you wonder why no one 's covered the subject before . |
| 13 | No one 's shot at me for a minute . ’ |
| 14 | No one 's heard of it , it was n't in the Auschwitz or Belsen class . |
| 15 | The other one 's staying on the ground . |
| 16 | Grim if producing an infant damages one 's thinking processes for good and all . ’ |
| 17 | In dealing with the ulema of the earlier period , then , one must first take care not to allow to influence one 's thinking unduly the relatively rigid structure of the hierarchy of the later period and the values and attitudes which this helped to foster . |
| 18 | Since the marginal utility of most goods is assumed to decrease with increasing quantities of the good , then it follows that the utility associated with each addition to one 's borrowing also diminishes . |
| 19 | right , okay so anyway that erm one 's causing a little bit of concern , I 've got another one scheduled for March which I was going to centre on here where will come along and talk to us about the Editor and the Royal Visit and you know ee ach dear me how glad I am to be away from the Scottish Office |
| 20 | No one 's breaking it why |
| 21 | That one 's broken down by business size , and all of them are available on cheshire or self-adhesive labels . |
| 22 | But to be made to feel as if one 's made of wood by a man who obviously is n't made of wood is too much for any girl 's stomach . |
| 23 | The trouble with having lived in the Middle East for a year or two is that , wherever one goes , one is bound to run into acquaintances ; and that means drinks at the nearest bar , and more acquaintances , and finally the complete derangement of one 's intended programme , and great loss of time . |
| 24 | For example , Gumperz identifies the following functions ( 1982 : 75 – 84 ) : quotations ( using a different code to mark a stretch of quoted speech ) , addressee specification ( choosing a code to pick out one 's intended addressee ) , interjections ( " sentence fillers " offset from the the main content of the sentence by a code switch ) , reiteration ( the message content is emphasised by repeating it in the other code ) , message qualification ( the main content of the message is " qualified " or adjusted by a clause in the other code ) , personalisation versus objectivisation . |
| 25 | One wing 's shredded , one 's flapping , it 's quacking up a storm . |
| 26 | That one 's get it like that red well that number 's moved . |
| 27 | This makes one 's listening uncannily like attending a live performance instead of that sometimes feeble approximation we have to tolerate from many reproducing systems . |
| 28 | ‘ Ian , no one 's listening to you . ’ |
| 29 | pink hair and one 's wearing a mac with little wellies and the , the other one 's a ballerina , and it 's wearing |
| 30 | do not feel that to say at eight , nine years of age , you see the little one 's bring reading books home |