Example sentences of "one [noun sg] i [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One agent I met with admitted that I was known in the business as a ‘ bit of a cheap turn ’ . |
| 2 | Like tea — we have the same brand each week — but if I know it 's cheaper in one shop I go into that shop , just to get that one thing — like I got it for 1 //6; this week and it 's usually 1 //11; — I like to get the best , but cheaper . |
| 3 | ‘ How did they get the £250,000 spare wealth needed to qualify in the first place ’ , is one theme I hear from these envy-driven commentators . |
| 4 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 5 | ‘ One day I return to these people , and this time I ask that they do a favour for me . |
| 6 | ‘ And one day I came across this tiny cottage . |
| 7 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 8 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 9 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |