Example sentences of "[been] one [prep] those " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 2 | Frankie had been one of those unfortunates . |
| 3 | It had been one of those days . |
| 4 | It has always been one of those comedies built on character and situation . |
| 5 | It had been one of those suggestions that stuns everyone with its rightness . |
| 6 | Theirs had been one of those childless , self-absorbing marriages which unconsciously repel attempts at intimacy . |
| 7 | But I 've never been one of those guys who set out to be a technical guitarist and I still do n't refer to myself as a technical player . |
| 8 | It must have been one of those little short-necked electric guitars that Lindley had . |
| 9 | It had been one of those bloody-minded mornings , when everything went wrong and even inanimate objects seemed to have banded together in a conspiracy against him . |
| 10 | Rufus was not squeamish , he had not been one of those medical students who become nauseous at their first sight of surgery , but , curiously enough he did not much like to think of all those odd little bones , so alien to him , so unidentifiable , being dug up and sorted out and sifted through in case there should be a human fibula among them or a vertebra . |
| 11 | Bridget had been one of those teenagers who work all through their school holidays in restaurants or in shops or cleaning houses and she always had cash . |
| 12 | It had been one of those days when everything had gone wrong : the stake-out at the Saudi Embassy had produced exactly nothing ; a false alarm , and after six , agonisingly boring hours , Cowley had called through the most welcome of messages : Go home lads . |
| 13 | At school , however , Coleby had been one of those brainless nonentities who never belong entirely to any one social group , who seem destined for failure . |
| 14 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 15 | Luckily he had been one of those we had briefed and he remembered the name . |
| 16 | It had been one of those mornings when the early sun striking the coloured glass of the landing window had tinted the dark hall with amber light . |
| 17 | ‘ Would James have been one of those people , by any chance ? ’ |
| 18 | It has not been one of those lives where people are rejected and say , ‘ I 'll show them . ’ |
| 19 | He could never have been one of those charismatic men and women who inspire and enthuse ; equally , he could never have achieved an indifferent acceptance of failure . |
| 20 | Professor Barrie Wilson , Vice-Principal of Edinburgh University , who has been one of those most closely involved with implementing recent management changes , says staff are still mainly concerned with teaching well and doing lots of research . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's been one of those days , has n't it , Robyn ? ’ he murmured evenly . |
| 22 | Indeed , she had been one of those in the chain passing water to the house from the pond . |
| 23 | Falcone had been one of those responsible for bringing to trial 473 members of the Mafia in December 1987 [ see p. 35990 ] . |
| 24 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 25 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
| 26 | Bernard seems to have been one of those who swore that Pippin would come . |
| 27 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 28 | He did so in a speech in the Norman town of Bayeux — a symbolic location because this town had been one of those that he had visited in his first trip to liberated territory in June 1944 . |
| 29 | When we got on the plane , we appreciated the Chinese caution : it was a rather ancient Russian prop-driven machine , which must have been one of those the Russians bequeathed to the Chinese when they went home in the early 1960s , taking all their spare parts with them . |
| 30 | not the first or the fourth it must have been one of those in the middle , but I 'm not sure which one it was . |