Example sentences of "that one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was probably the only way he could get one , she thought waspishly ; the law of averages no doubt decreed that one at least would believe him , and how on earth could he want her when he 'd said all those terrible things to her ? |
| 2 | He used to own a garage , that one with the big car showrooms on the High Street . |
| 3 | ‘ Richard Dunwoody has confirmed his availability for Deep Sensation and he will ride that one with Declan on Bradbury Star , ’ said Gifford . |
| 4 | There was only that one with the bit of enamel chipped off . |
| 5 | You can hear that one on Planet Cannonball and it had the most incredible effect ; the voltage on it would sag so much when you cranked it up that it sounded like a volume swell pedal . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , that one over there is Erig Stronginthearm , over there is Black Zenell — ’ |
| 7 | In fact , he laughed so loud and so often that One Over The Eight practically came to a halt . |
| 8 | Some languages have demonstratives with three and four way distinctions on the proximal-distal dimension , so that the North West American language Tlingit , for example , has demonstratives glossable as " this one right here " , " this one nearby " , " that one over there " , and " that one way over there " , while Malagasy has a six-way contrast on the same dimension ( Frei , 1944 : 115 ; Anderson & Keenan , in press ) . |
| 9 | And there was that last phrase in the letter — that one about new people popping up : he grabbed the letter and re-read that sentence , his eyes bulging with suspicion and fear . |
| 10 | So that one about erm go insane and eat my brain baby |
| 11 | ‘ Could n't describe that one as an asset , ’ Granpa used to say . |
| 12 | The result was that one round ‘ cooked-off ’ and fired into the fin and rudder . |
| 13 | A National Consumer Council report suggests that only 31% of council and housing associations tenants were satisfied with the way in which their complaints were handled , and that one in six tenants dissatisfied with the service provided by their landlord had not made a complaint at all . |
| 14 | This week 's figures suggest that one in three motorists are buying unleaded , despite the confusion which still exists about which cars can run on which fuel . |
| 15 | In past epidemics , the doctors reckoned that one in ten of those infected would die . |
| 16 | As a result they were often not employed and , even if they were , there was a widespread superstition that the Catholic church made sure that one in twenty ( or was it ten ? ) was faulty , as a sort of divine vengeance . |
| 17 | Yet we know fur example that one in four British households in 1989 were comprised of people living on their own and one in three families were single parent families . |
| 18 | His study , to be presented to the British Psychological Society 's annual conference in Scarborough today , found that one in three girls wanted to be thinner , even though many of them were not overweight . |
| 19 | Statistics ( Table I ) indicate that one in ten of the people of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland works in agriculture , although in practice the presence of small scale and often part-time farming means that probably one in five receive part of their income from agricultural activities . |
| 20 | ( 1 ) Official figures indicate that one in five of southern Italians and a quarter of Greeks and Portuguese work in agriculture , although the numbers significantly dependent on it for their livelihood must be considerably higher . |
| 21 | Sandy and Eddie at two in the morning , surveying the evening 's crowd and explaining who was who to a newcomer : ‘ You see that one in the white vest , that 's his affair in the denim . |
| 22 | He did no more than chip that one in as well , and it gave us the lead . |
| 23 | Perhaps a couple are looking at one another in a different light — it is to be remembered that one in three marriages now ends in divorce . |
| 24 | Statistics show that one in every three company directors aged 40 will die before reaching age 65 . |
| 25 | The British Crime Survey suggests that one in four crimes are officially reported , although sociologists and criminologists suggest that between 10 and 15 per cent is a more probable figure . |
| 26 | Assuming that one in 10 were severe reactions — experience suggests the ratio would be much lower — that implies a total of 318 500 reactions , or two out of every three patients . |
| 27 | A survey by London Gay Switchboard in 1980 of people looking for accommodation found that one in four was homeless on account of their sexuality . |
| 28 | And does the fact that one in four people in Britain now lives alone mean that we have finally achieved the highest aspirations of humanity , or that we are victims of an ideology of individualism that has distorted even our deepest relationships ? |
| 29 | I WAS interested to read that one in five people does n't sleep well . |
| 30 | But one large finance house which circulates new customers with literature promoting other loan possibilities reported that one in five pursue the offer no indication that the ‘ loans as loans ’ stage is with us yet , but a tribute to the power of the advertising which could bring it closer . |