Example sentences of "[was/were] one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalled that Ian Duthie , a graduate of Edinburgh University , -was one of his tutors in ‘ English 101 ’ ( a compulsory subject ) , who provided interesting connections with his father 's accent and the general Scottishness of Westmount . |
| 2 | ALTHOUGH OFTEN ACCOMPANIED BY BERNARD , AS ON THIS OCCASION TO DISCUSS BUSINESS PLANS , HER SOLITARY WALKS WERE ONE OF HER MOST REPLENISHING ACTIVITIES AND A VALUABLE SOURCE OF CREATIVE INSPIRATION . |
| 3 | After six appearances and three goals for Leeds , the former enfant terrible of French football has been taken to flinty Yorkshire hearts as though he were one of their own . |
| 4 | This was a private company set up to produce turbochargers , which again , because we were one of their biggest customers , we eventually became partners and then bought them over . |
| 5 | ‘ You let me go on believing that you were one of their crew , ’ she persisted heatedly , provoked by his bland unconcern . |
| 6 | ‘ Always knew you were one of me mates , ’ said Archie , highly gratified that things had suddenly been made easy for him . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you were one of them . ’ |
| 8 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 9 | Only Spiderglass could protect her — if she were one of them . |
| 10 | In that room where my mam were getting changed there were one of them machines , you know what you blow into Alb ? |
| 11 | I thought it were one of them , you know when you go in hospital and you 're off work and that ? |
| 12 | I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not . |
| 13 | I thought it were one of them , watch what you 're doing , I thought it were one of them but it 's not . |
| 14 | No , that we that were one of them . |
| 15 | That were one of them . |
| 16 | And Ray went to this little cubby hole where these two fellers were one of them looked like a policeman did n't he ? |
| 17 | there , were one of them where they were walking round we with wet pants , you know , ol old people an that . |
| 18 | You are curious , you are looking for something else , because this is the second time that you have invited me to have a drink , you order cheiro as though you were one of us , you are a foreigner and pretend to speak like us , yet you drink little and then you stay silent and wait for me to speak . |
| 19 | ‘ Why did you give me the impression that you were one of my father 's employees ? ’ she questioned without preamble . |
| 20 | But er were one of our customers , buying engines from our mother company in the States . |
| 21 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |
| 22 | Anthony put an arm gently around her shoulders and urged her upstairs back to bed as though she were one of his charges from the orphanage . |
| 23 | Mrs Molesworth was paddling and her husband was poking at the stones because , he said , fossils were one of his hobbies . |
| 24 | He had opposed the Boer war and South African issues were one of his major concerns as an MP . |
| 25 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 26 | Yeah , she er we went to the river shore , you know the bridge near o on our part of the road and he were behind the trees and er I was wo wo , it were one of his sons who were with us , you know , Tommy and he was shouting |
| 27 | In place of an ‘ assignee ’ came the ‘ trustee in bankruptcy ’ who was one of themselves , and responsible to a Committee of Inspection . |
| 28 | The ‘ twittering twenties ’ was one of its results , a concentrated version of the ‘ naughty nineties ’ papering over the fissures , which were undermining society at its heart — and mind . |
| 29 | This fine old variety , raised in Suffolk about 150 years ago , owes its aromatic flavour to another good old apple , Ribston Pippin , which was one of its parents . |
| 30 | Renton also discussed the situation with Lord Whitelaw , the deputy leader of the party , who was one of its most widely respected elder statesmen and a person renowned for the loyalty he had shown to Mrs Thatcher . |