Example sentences of "one [noun] [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon we went up to Croydon St. in Karori to look at our old house . |
| 2 | One afternoon I went out with another girl for a walk , with the idea of finding a quiet spot in the meadow we called the Big Field , to read and write letters . |
| 3 | According to one story he started out as a liveryman in England and ran away to sea after stealing his mistress 's jewels . |
| 4 | One cottage I stayed in without electricity or water saw 11 of us standing eagerly over a one-ring Calor gas burner in the morning waiting for a kettle to boil for coffee , when one of our party came into the kitchen , picked up the kettle and took it into the bathroom to wash his face . |
| 5 | When the pair finish one car they go back to the beginning of their segment and start on another . |
| 6 | One Saturday I went out to the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club , near Windsor , to watch the Moët et Chandon High Goal Challenge presented by Moët et Chandon in association with Harpers & Queen . |
| 7 | One pub we went in in Cov on that last day of the season had a group of about 20–30 Leeds ‘ fans ’ singing stuff against Munich , the Irish , the Scots , and just about every other ethnic group present in the place too . |
| 8 | ‘ With one eye you look out at the world ; with the other you look in at yourself ’ , was Modigliani 's explanation . |
| 9 | At one point they met up with a lorry laden with Coke which had been stuck for over three weeks in knee deep mud . |
| 10 | All I remember is that at one point he walked along with one foot on the kerb and the other in the gutter and was told off for limping . |
| 11 | At one point she roamed over to the window and gazed out . |
| 12 | I remember one evening we went up to bed , and my head was just spinning because we 'd had about ten ten people had come in , some of them overlapping and some had you know but I 'd say at one stage we had about seven people in the flat together . |
| 13 | One evening he clambered down with an armful of tin pipes and funnels , scooped a cupful of fermenting liquid out of the barrel , and disappeared into the lavatory . |
| 14 | He could also be more bluntly manipulative : on one occasion he walked up to a sailor , with his girlfriend at the bar , saying , as he gave him £20 , ‘ When you 've finished with her , come and see Auntie Minton , she 's got plenty more . ’ |
| 15 | On one occasion I lay down for a rest , dozed off for 15 minutes , and awoke to find half a dozen sitting on branches within a few metres of my recumbent form . |
| 16 | ‘ On one occasion I woke up from an operation in hospital and asked her if she had brought my Echo . ’ |
| 17 | I remember on one occasion I dashed out of the television studios to the bookshop in Norwich without a trace of make-up on and these kids fell off their bikes , saying ‘ Ugh , in real life you do n't look at all like you do on TV . ’ ’ |
| 18 | Mysteriously , a nurse later said that one night I got out of bed and walked to the toilet , and yet the next day I could n't move . |
| 19 | One night I got out of bed and drove — very badly — to an office . |
| 20 | One night I dressed up in one of Mum 's frocks and Frankie donned Dad 's billy-cock hat but in the middle of ‘ Rock of Ages ’ Dad returned . |
| 21 | Inevitably one night she ended up by going to bed with him . |
| 22 | I trained hard all last winter and in one race I came up against a black who I knew had n't prepared properly . |
| 23 | As Gatfield points out , ‘ I ca n't work on a host of acts who I am vaguely interested in , just in case one day they come up with something exciting . |
| 24 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
| 25 | One day he looked up at her , met her eyes . |
| 26 | He seemed friendly : one day he sat down on Cameron 's pallet bed , looking sheepish . |
| 27 | One day he set off for Barnard Castle to address a meeting , but got so hopelessly drunk on the journey he was unable to speak on his arrival . |
| 28 | One day she cried out to Angel : ‘ Why did n't you stay and love me when I was sixteen … when you danced in Marlott ? |
| 29 | I did n't expect her to do so , but what I did n't know then was that she had a holiday cottage in Muker , which is not far over the hills in Swaledale , and one day she turned up with some friends of hers . |
| 30 | One day she turned up with the Raleigh bike because she was worried that I did n't get out much . |