Example sentences of "[prep] one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and he said I 'm after one for my horse . |
| 2 | Clarissa came off sparkling with pleasure after one of her very successful numbers . |
| 3 | The real story of Koons ' romance with Cicciolina began about three years ago in Milan , when Koons first introduced himself to the Italian porn legend after one of her famed pee-on-the-audience performances . |
| 4 | At Elizabeth Mowbray 's suggestion , she took the name de Warenne after one of her real father 's earldoms — though she herself was still unaware of the connection . |
| 5 | One late summer morning when Celia was getting on for four years old , Harriet drove back to Four Winds after one of her solo shopping-trips and was surprised to find Liza sitting outside with a young woman of about her own age . |
| 6 | The end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century saw the publication of Buchanan 's works ( just after one of them , his treatise on Scottish political theory , De Iure Regni apud Scotos , had enjoyed the distinction of being burned , with Hobbes ' Leviathan , by the University of Oxford in 1683 ) ; to begin with , it was works particularly dealing with Mary , the Detectioun and the History of Scotland , which were published , and then in 1715 came Thomas Ruddiman 's Opera Omnia Georgii Buchanani . |
| 7 | I was going after one of them , George Macready , when John Carradine , the first Yggdrasil projection , got himself — itself — remaindered . |
| 8 | On June 5 , 50 troops had dragged Khmara 's co-defendants from the courtroom after one of them , Kovalchuk , attacked the chairman . |
| 9 | Angry parents are demanding an explanation from a bus company after one of its drivers took their children on a six mile detour . |
| 10 | An airline is to change its flying procedures after one of its aircraft almost crashed in Oxford . |
| 11 | Cambridge 's inability to shake off Oxford , who poignantly named their boat the John Hebbes after one of their oarsmen who died recently , by the end of the Surrey bend was the crucial factor . |
| 12 | He was made out to be the bad guy playing against Seve , especially after one of their clashes at Wentworth in the World Matchplay , but I do n't know . |
| 13 | He always adopted a practical attitude in such affairs and , as Pound remarked after one of their conversations , " There is always a core of solid sense in Mr Eliot 's talk " . |
| 14 | All 261 US Peace Corps volunteers had been evacuated from the Philippines in June after one of their number , Timothy Swanson , was kidnapped by the NPA on the island of Negros on June 13 . |
| 15 | That privilege was given to the women a year ago after one of their colleagues Anna McGurk was murdered in the more remote Castlemeads car park . |
| 16 | He helped form the midweek walkers ' club for retired friends who shared his love of walking and it was after one of their regular meetings that he died . |
| 17 | On Gordon Durie : ‘ I was n't surprised when he was substituted because he was already crying after one of my tackles on him . ’ |
| 18 | Letterman confided to me after one of our tennis games that my pieces in Manhattan had always struck him as somewhat trivial — artifices — until he read my piece ‘ Drancy , Ante-chamber of Death ’ . |
| 19 | The inshore lifeboat only came into action to take the men ashore after one of our vessels was damaged . ’ |
| 20 | It somehow excuses my necessary but mild intemperance after one of your punishing walks . |
| 21 | One Italian who was executed for war crimes — General Bellomo — was the only anti-fascist army officer at a senior level ; he was found guilty after one of his men shot an escaping British prisoner of war at Bari . |
| 22 | But the ex-President , still affectionately known as ‘ The Gipper ’ after one of his old film roles , proved that he had lost none of his old style and sense of humour . |
| 23 | He tells of one teacher who was interviewed by police for 12 hours , and then suspended from work for six months after one of his pupils accused him of touching her up . |
| 24 | Ira brought them from Victoria after one of his visits with Emily . |
| 25 | I must have been spot on his wavelength for I never left the quiet room after one of his healings without a sense , almost of VROOOOM ! |
| 26 | Coming home , ’ Napoleon wrote to Josephine after one of his campaigns . |
| 27 | Oscar Esmond Godolphin always recited a little prayer in praise of democracy when , after one of his trips to the Dominions , he stepped back on to English soil . |
| 28 | But he had n't deserted her , he had arranged a suitable marriage with his under-gardener , had given the couple the lodge to live in and had had the child named after one of his sweetest heroines , Brenda Nevil of Wrenwood . |
| 29 | He was speaking after one of his planes with just over a hundred Britons on board left Jordan with more half the seats empty because of diplomatic red tape . |
| 30 | He was speaking after one of his planes with just over 100 Britons on board left Jordan with more than half the seats empty because of diplomatic red tape . |