Example sentences of "[vb pp] one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Profumo ( Daily Telegraph ) did not seem to take it very seriously : ‘ Unless your literary menu is gamier than most , it is rare to come across a novel in which the author-narrator claims to have sodomised one of his own female characters . |
| 2 | He had discharged one of them from the infirmary in no worse condition than when he had arrived . |
| 3 | They did work in er two worked in two different quarries but within a week or a fortnight that young lad approached one of our members and said he 's sorry that he 'd ever gone back and I said to him well come back and join us and forget it all . |
| 4 | The Takeover Panel has carpeted one of its own . |
| 5 | In launching troops against the unarmed , hymn-singing crowds of men and women , the Romanov regime committed one of its greatest political blunders . |
| 6 | One only has to look at who they were playing — a team that has only won one of their first 9 games and now have only 7 points from their first 10 . |
| 7 | In a disappointing run United have only won one of their last ten matches . |
| 8 | ‘ Dora took it into her head this evening that you 'd pinched one of her golf-clubs as a sort of practical joke , ’ she explained . |
| 9 | Let's say Vargas has picked one of them up in one of those pubs the soldiers frequent round the Tower . ’ |
| 10 | The first thing you we do a range of policies and you 've picked one of our smaller ones . |
| 11 | When I was unable to finish the heaped plateful , the waitress expressed concern that I had not enjoyed one of their local specialties ; two , I felt , would have killed me . |
| 12 | Athelstan dare not tell him that he had already resolved one of them . |
| 13 | Bristol , Avon-based Meiko Ltd has installed one of its expandable 3.2GFlops CS-2 parallel processing systems at Southampton University : the system will initially be used by the University 's Concurrent Computation Group to evaluate the portable programming system being developed under the European Community 's Esprit-3 research programme , but is to be expanded to provide a central computing resource for molecular and computational dynamics research and for developing applications with the university 's industrial partners . |
| 14 | Aethelheard returned to Canterbury and set about imposing his authority anew on the bishops of the southern province , and by 901 at the latest Coenwulf had installed one of his brothers , Cuthred , as king in Kent , to govern the territory more securely ( CS 303 : S 157 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ The art world has never had to deal with that populist level , ’ he continues — we 've obviously broached one of his favourite topics . |
| 16 | In the UK , the Reed Exhibition Co Ltd has cancelled one of its biggest events , the PC-oriented Which Computer Show , which was to have taken place at the NEC , Birmingham this April . |
| 17 | If you are granted one of our mortgages for more than 80% of the purchase price or valuation , then you will also be required to take out a mortgage guarantee indemnity policy . |
| 18 | The result was that Frazer was astonishingly well informed about cultures throughout the world , without ever having visited one of them . |
| 19 | Courteously seating her inside the car first , he walked round to the driver 's side , and when he had settled himself behind the wheel asked unexpectedly , ‘ Have you visited one of our pubs yet ? ’ |
| 20 | It 's said one of them had designs on Florence Nightingale . |
| 21 | A lady has just said one of your earlier callers has just said that Council are out of touch well we should n't be out of touch and that is this exercise you have two councillors on here from different parties showing a concern for the trees . |
| 22 | He has said one of his main goals will be to encourage promotion of the benefits of membership . |
| 23 | Indeed he had a strong feeling that only his six foot four inches prevented one of them from saying so . |
| 24 | When Aubrey had accepted one of their many invitations to come on a lengthy visit , it did cross Harry 's mind that his resemblance to his sister might bring back painful memories , but although Aubrey had now been here over a week , he , Harry , had felt no desire to wish himself free of his engagement . |
| 25 | Souness added that he accepted Liverpool had lost to a better team , but still wondered how the Russians would have reacted had the Reds accepted one of their early half chances . |
| 26 | Henry also sent messengers separately to Philip , presumably in the hope of driving a wedge between the allies , but Richard had instructed one of his most trusted advisers , his chancellor William Longchamp , to remain at the French court and look after his interests . |
| 27 | Vlad , denying the charges , told the court that he had instructed one of his colleagues not to open fire . |
| 28 | Oh charming , I see , since when did you last chucked one of yours out of the beasties . |
| 29 | Stevenson might have felt one of his own remarks appropriate : ‘ The cruellest lies are often told in silence . ’ |
| 30 | It is more likely that the accounts in Matthew and Luke are shortened versions of Mark than that Mark has expanded one of theirs . |