Example sentences of "one about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Klima 's first loves have a way of not working out ; and what may have been his longest affair is the one about which least is said . |
| 2 | During the year in which the final version was written it became clear that Raskolnikov must be freed absolutely from suicide and blanket boredom and ripostes like the one about family life which issue out from beneath that boredom . |
| 3 | But while some rumours are harmless — like the persistent one about certain restaurants serving up dead dogs — others can be very damaging for businesses , especially in the volatile electronics sector . |
| 4 | Willis said it had not ‘ adjusted ’ its stake and had ‘ talked to no one about it ’ . |
| 5 | Joseph II will always be remembered for finding ‘ too many notes ’ in Die Entfuhrung ; and our own Queen has an almost comparable claim on immortality if the story is to be believed that when asked to attend a performance of Figaro , she replied : ‘ Is that the one about the pin ? ’ |
| 6 | It is , of course , the one about the pin . |
| 7 | ‘ Drink up , ’ said the darts club wit , ‘ and I 'll tell you the one about the girl who married the sailor . ’ |
| 8 | We did n't tell no one about it , just went off to church quietly by ourselves . |
| 9 | There was one about 1930s radio shows : All I had to do was hear your voice , All at once I knew I had no choice … |
| 10 | There was one about lesbian leanings in a girls ' school : Put on your navy knicks , Pick up your hockey sticks … |
| 11 | December 13 , 1956 : Dear Bunny , There are some delightful , first-rate pieces in your book , such as the one about your father and the first of the two about the Jews , but I am as always distressed by your conception of Russian history , which is all wrong , being based on the stale Bolshevist propaganda which you imbibed in your youth . |
| 12 | The rather tacky set , the lucklustre performances , the script from David Straun and Heather Williams that lurches from trite audience participation to over-the-head jokes ( would any primary-school child get the one about water privatisation ? ) , all did n't seem to matter as the company of four scampered around with their well-intentioned tale of how the white man destroyed the American Indians . |
| 13 | I ca n't remember which of David 's songs led into that — I shudder to think — but there was another lovely one about a little coat — sell me a coat because I feel cold . |
| 14 | But what strikes one about their situation and the way they are tackling it is how vary narrowly they are ahead . |
| 15 | England were left to reflect on one of the game 's oldest sayings , the one about catches winning matches . |
| 16 | It was one about another exquisitely detailed carving on a cathedral door , the Portada de Ramos — the Palm Sunday Doorway . |
| 17 | She had told no one about the Lock . |
| 18 | It was quiet and there was no one about : no stray dogs barking and running loose , no bored kids riding round and round on bikes on the tarmac-and-broken-glass wastelands of open ‘ play areas ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ 'ave n't you told no one about it yet ? ’ |
| 20 | This was one about the three crooks from London who dressed up in African tribal costumes and tricked jewellers into parting with gear worth £250,000 in exchange for boxes containing carrots and potatoes . |
| 21 | She feels that their culture is not her culture , and they have had many arguments about the way she dresses ; in particular a recent , violent one about wanting to cut her hair . |
| 22 | What struck one about the campaign was how un-Thatcherite the Tory leaders sounded . |
| 23 | Of all the great canards quacking about in the European propaganda lake , none is more easily shot out of the water than the one about German federalists . |
| 24 | When I try to move the prop shafts by hand the front one moves freely by about 10 to 12 degrees and the rear one about 6 to 8 degrees . |
| 25 | ‘ Have you heard the one about the three-legged sailor ? ’ piped Bunty Abercrombie . |
| 26 | Well , have you heard the one about ? ’ |
| 27 | ( Ash had also written a poem about Gibbon and one about the Venerable Bede , historians of greatly differing kinds . |
| 28 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 29 | ‘ The one about the Cumaean Sibyl . |
| 30 | ‘ What 's this one about ? ’ she said , as , holding his hand , she climbed the short flight of stairs that led to her attic room . |