Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [verb] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , on my , on my bread , so I wan na spread it , mum I only want one piece of lunch meat |
| 2 | Much of this information is held on the back of the chart , unlike the Admiralty who only use one side . |
| 3 | we do n't want the fire brigade we only want one man to come up ! |
| 4 | As a rule he only drank one glass , but that night he drank three , and when he noticed the full moon in the window he became excited , almost too much white in his eyes and a bulb of spit shining on his front teeth . |
| 5 | The only light in the room came from the street lamps which vaguely illuminated one corner of the room but left the rest in shadow . |
| 6 | Only small Roman fragments have been found in Stamford — Sharp 's ‘ clearly traceable ’ Roman camp which apparently stood one furlong north-west of the town is untraceable — but there is the site of a villa just to the west of the town . |
| 7 | With five and even three elements I always had one element in the centre . |
| 8 | I only know one person I only know one bus driver with children . |
| 9 | A concentration may occur in one of two ways : first , two or more parties that were previously independent may merge so as to become one new independent business or secondly , one or more persons who already control one business may acquire direct or indirect control of another business . |
| 10 | De Sabata was also probably the only person who never said one word against another conductor . |
| 11 | What cruel irony it will be if my own uncompromising and innovatory integrity should lead me into the mantraps set by the sort of people who scarcely know one end of a pen from another . |
| 12 | But there is something of a tension in Mill 's view , because he thinks that erm it 's very important that if there is plural voting then the people who only have one vote should be prepared to accept the situation , so that the reasons why these people are given extra votes should be reasoned that the public , the uneducated accept past critics have pointed out if that 's going to be the case , why is it necessary to give these people extra votes , give the educated actual votes , because if the uneducated accept that the decisions of the educated are worth more than their own decisions , the opinions of the educated are worth more than the opinions of the uneducated , if they really do accept that , what 's to stop them just following the decisions of the educated in their own vote ? |
| 13 | This period marks the beginning of his life-long friendship with a group of writers and intellectuals who now dominate one strand of Hungary 's political life . |
| 14 | It may therefore be that a clause which wholly negates one party 's promise will never be given effect ; even if this is not the case , the court will be extremely reluctant to interpret the clause in that way and clear words will be needed to have that effect . |
| 15 | But the temperature sensor in the tank was n't working , and the fuel could have reached 180 degrees … turning it into explosive gas which only needed one spark to ignite it . |
| 16 | I watched and held my breath , but to my relief she only brought one lump out of her bag , and that the smallest of the two , which she gave to me and I put it quickly into my cart . |
| 17 | It is difficult to imagine how the variable work of only one mosaicist could account for such differences : an explanation which merely supposes one mosaicist applying a number of contrasting methods of laying ( Part 1 , sections 3.8 — 3.10 ) must be suspect . |
| 18 | Was she the only one in this part of the world who only spoke one language ? |
| 19 | The pigments which optically separate one ommatidium from another are withdrawn at night so that each rhabdom can receive light from many facets . |
| 20 | It was dark and in our haste we only lit one candle . |
| 21 | Erm at school they usually have one teacher for each |
| 22 | In fact I only missed one prep . |
| 23 | Of course , there is no direct evidence that the Moon has lost an appreciable fraction of its craters from the final stages of formation , except through any separate late heavy bombardment which merely replaces one set of craters by another . |
| 24 | It requires great skill on the part of the teacher to match tasks to attainment levels and in reality it will prove unusual starting from a core to have a task which only addresses one level within one target . |
| 25 | When your party was in power they barely provided one pitch in the whole of the county |