Example sentences of "[vb past] of one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told of one man who was harangued for ninety minutes at a time until he had a nervous breakdown and quit . |
| 2 | The Hartlepool Mail told of one emergency board meeting hastily convened on a Skipton pavement . |
| 3 | The ingredients consisted of one fistful ( approximately 34 grams ) of rice , one 3-finger pinch of salt and 550ml of water . |
| 4 | The second consisted of one presentation each of all possible pairings of the digits 0 to 9 , including reverses ( eg 1+9 and 9+1 ) and ties ( 100 sums in all ) . |
| 5 | Many houses consisted of one storey only but in a number of instances , as at Priene , stairs have been excavated , leading to the presumption that an upper story had been constructed . |
| 6 | In 1961 12 per cent of all households in Great Britain consisted of one person as compared with 25 per cent in 1987 ( Table 2.6 ) . |
| 7 | Like Anderson and Barrios , we had 5 types of list : HL , LH , GD , GA , and R. Part 2 consisted of one question as fellows : |
| 8 | Breakfast consisted of one ladle of porridge , half a cup of milk and a dry biscuit , but no one complained . |
| 9 | In Wiltshire in 1383–84 , the working justices consisted of one lawyer , Sir Robert Cherleton ( later Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ) , and four local gentry , Nicholas Bonham , Sir Philip FitzWaryn , Sir Thomas Hungerford and William de Worston . |
| 10 | The illumination consisted of one 500W Mercury lamp vertically overhead , and a tungsten lamp at an angle of about 45° . |
| 11 | This consisted of one box with a battery connected to the thin electric cable that was also the ferret 's line . |
| 12 | I heard of one guy , he 's just arrived , gets in this taxi . |
| 13 | The group may be very large ( only recently I heard of one group of over thirty people ) , but ideally it should be small . |
| 14 | Mr Gray said he knew of one man who had been threatened with court action for not paying his water rates when he did not receive a reminder . |
| 15 | Avril knew of one person she could turn to for support — Peter Spencer . |
| 16 | I knew of one farm where they served the suet and gravy first so as to take the edge off their hunger and save the meat . |
| 17 | He spoke of one boy ‘ who did n't really have a lot going for him ’ who managed to qualify to compete in regional athletics events . |
| 18 | Her father died when she was young and she spoke of one brother . |
| 19 | For example the development officer said of one client : |
| 20 | Chris Heginbotham , when director of Mind , wrote of one sight he had witnessed in one well-known hospital south-east of London : |
| 21 | Then a line of orange flame , like a livid thread on the screen , spat from the had of one pirate towards the tangle of Gharrgoyles . |