Example sentences of "one [prep] [pron] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday . |
| 2 | Two recent cases of young Arabs dying while in police custody ( one of whom fell out of a window while being interrogated ) have added to this impression . |
| 3 | The decision leaked out among the officers , one of whom burst in on a later meeting to protest passionately against it : ‘ What is this ? ’ he demanded . |
| 4 | The country park includes an historic Iron Age camp and extensive walks , one of which links up with the walk along the Grand Union Canal via Green Lane . |
| 5 | One of them came up behind him and hooked an arm around his throat while another snatched the whip from his hand . |
| 6 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 7 | ‘ One of them opened up with a chopper . |
| 8 | He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other . |
| 9 | I then noticed one of them putting on to his fingers … a knuckle-duster . |
| 10 | ‘ There are a lot of musicians in Seattle and every one of them looks up to Jimi Hendrix . |
| 11 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 12 | ‘ Then one of them flew up in front of us . |
| 13 | There were a lot of very nasty people around , then as now , and if one of them turned up in no condition for a party , lying on the towpath , there was no questions asked . ’ |
| 14 | I started taking smack at school , 'cos everyone in the — estate at that time was taking it and that was the only place you could buy pot and I sent one of me mates out from school one day to buy some speed and he come back with smack and said this is all I could get and I said I do n't want none of that , but in the end we ended up doing it because we was bored and we had nothing else to do . |
| 15 | Homicide is the proper word for the word I want one of you to come up with . |
| 16 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |