Example sentences of "[not/n't] one [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not one of they brothers got and kept a wife . ’ |
| 2 | When she could n't answer , the man turned to his friend and said in English , she 's not one of ours . |
| 3 | ‘ Not one of ours . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not one of ours , sir . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 's not one of ours at all . |
| 6 | Not one of ours , I hasten to add . |
| 7 | Especially not one of them . |
| 8 | Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with . |
| 9 | There are many reasons why , sadly , too many of our youngsters still leave school without the skills of literacy and numeracy , but comprehensive reorganisation is not one of them . |
| 10 | There were plenty of pumpkins at about the British record weight of 444lbs , or about a third the weight of a hatchback car , into which not one of them could have fitted . |
| 11 | The Laser project , as it is known , has its supporters in the government though Mr Chirac is not one of them . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've nursed some players through training these last few days , but he 's not one of them . ’ |
| 13 | The Secretary of State , Nicholas Ridley , was certainly not one of them . |
| 14 | But debt is not one of them |
| 15 | The story of the Tower of Babel is not one of them . |
| 16 | There might be any roads to socialism but the Labour Party was not one of them . |
| 17 | They all laughed , not one of them willing to step out into the coldest night of the winter . |
| 18 | In the 1870s R. F. Horton 's father , himself a Congregational minister , refused to let his son enter a Congregational college because , he wrote , ‘ there is not one of them fit for you to enter . |
| 19 | Miss Harker was certainly very charming and many had hoped that her arrival might bring them some relief , but not one of them wanted to stand up in front of the boss 's relative and complain about the mill . |
| 20 | She regrets Mr Kinnock was not one of them . |
| 21 | Racing has a last chance to make sure it is not one of them . |
| 22 | Paul Parker is not one of them , however . |
| 23 | There may be some people who would like to see you break your neck , but I am not one of them . ’ |
| 24 | The parliament 's call for pensions to be uprated in line with wages is one which has been fully achieved in only four of the 12 countries ; Britain is not one of them . |
| 25 | The Russian Girl by Kingsley Amis Hutchinson , £14.99 SOME writers show signs of mellowing when they reach 70 , but Kingsley Amis is not one of them . |
| 26 | Even the Committee felt low , not one of them arrived at the next schedule meeting ! |
| 27 | While these are all among Leapor 's better poems , it is interesting that not one of them is marked by that sharp protest against social injustice or the suffering of women which , to a reader in the 1990s , seems one of the chief characteristics of her verse . |
| 28 | Not one of them has enjoyed internal political loyalty and they have therefore lacked the strength or authority to transact formal negotiations in which controversial concessions might have to be made . |
| 29 | You can guess that I was not one of them . |
| 30 | And not one of them is more than 300 kilometres from the sea . |