Example sentences of "[vb past] one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE QUEEN retained one of her favourite awards when Set The Fashion won the Brighton Mile Challenge Trophy yesterday . |
| 2 | In the 25th minute , Violet McBride tried one of her special lobs from the edge of the circle but luckily for Pegasus , it flew over the crossbar . |
| 3 | ‘ She said they 'd been helping her to write songs , and sure enough I tried one of them — low string down to D , and top string right down to C — and I got three new songs straight away : Galileo , Virginia Woolf and a ballad that did n't make it onto the record . |
| 4 | yeah , the , that 's the awful part I tried one of them with a big bit here and I tried it on and it looked like a tit on a pimple , I said god what am I gon na do ? |
| 5 | In 1842 CD visited one of their settlements at ( New ) Lebanon , NY , from which he emerged with ‘ a hearty dislike of the old Shakers and a hearty pity for the young ones ’ . |
| 6 | Despite its relentless slaughter , its numbers were still great enough to excite Gould 's astonishment when he visited one of its principal colonies on Green Island . |
| 7 | Bernard Kouchner , the French Minister-Delegate for Humanitarian Action , on March 11 visited one of what the official media called " displaced locations " , to which people had been moved , near Omdurman , Khartoum state . |
| 8 | I visited one of my favourite Wessex waters recently , Sutton Bingham near Yeovil . |
| 9 | Perdita was settling down and had even hit a respectable forehand which only just missed the goal when Alejandro , out of some devilry , swopped one of his sons and a cousin for Luke and Angel . |
| 10 | Mason 's prowess in a Hawk trainer moved one of his instructors to observe that the writer was wasted as a journalist . |
| 11 | The four-part chansons which poured from Attaingnant 's press from 1528 to 1550 — Clement Marot ( 1496–1544 ) his favourite poet , Sermisy his favourite composer ( though he devoted one of his earliest volumes solely to Janequin ) — still have so much in common with the frottola and kindred Italian popular forms , however much they sophisticated them , that their Italian ancestry hardly needs a birth-certificate . |
| 12 | He drew one of his several revolvers and fired a shot in the air . |
| 13 | ’ He grasped one of her hands . |
| 14 | Athelstan watched the hospitaller suddenly stir and noticed with alarm how the knight now grasped one of his gloves in his hand . |
| 15 | He was an able woodworker , making toys and furniture for them — He even built one of them a bed |
| 16 | In this case the advertisement said ‘ Let us lead you into temptation ’ and described one of its models as having ‘ A decidedly illegal top speed . ’ |
| 17 | Farningham described one of her most fearsome lessons in humility as follows : |
| 18 | I twisted on the pole , pushed my talons forward and caught one of them a passing blow . |
| 19 | Zeinab caught one of her glances . |
| 20 | Peterborough manager Chris Turner added : ‘ Evidently one of their players caught one of our players and it was handbags at 10 paces and then someone threw a punch . ’ |
| 21 | At the same time , the blacks found one of their most notable leaders . |
| 22 | Just at that moment there was a loud banging on the back door of Four Winds and when Edna went to answer it she found one of her younger brothers , Bob Rafferty , standing there , red and perspiring , while , in between gasps , he burst out , ‘ You gotter come , Edna . |
| 23 | Mrs Sandra Ellis , of Fernie Road , Braintree , found one of her three cats hit by an airgun pellet . |
| 24 | Especially as I found one of them had been sick in the spare room . |
| 25 | Val found one of her insisting words for Fergus too , one which was askew and inaccurate . |
| 26 | One teacher found one of his pupils waiting for him , half-naked , in the back of his car . |
| 27 | A man who was beaten and stabbed while out jogging patrolled city streets until he found one of his attackers . |
| 28 | He found one of my mother 's earrings down the side of the back seat and he just sat there staring at it . |
| 29 | Talk with your husband or wife about how you would react if you found one of your children was using drugs . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , Monsieur , before I met you in St Paul 's , I found one of your handbills in my chamber at the Golden Turk . |