Example sentences of "[been] one of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | For Gordon might well have been one of this newspaper 's very first journalists . |
2 | It has always been one of those comedies built on character and situation . |
3 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
4 | It had been one of those mornings when the early sun striking the coloured glass of the landing window had tinted the dark hall with amber light . |
5 | It has not been one of those lives where people are rejected and say , ‘ I 'll show them . ’ |
6 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
7 | It had been one of those suggestions that stuns everyone with its rightness . |
8 | But I 've never been one of those guys who set out to be a technical guitarist and I still do n't refer to myself as a technical player . |
9 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
10 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
11 | Bridget had been one of those teenagers who work all through their school holidays in restaurants or in shops or cleaning houses and she always had cash . |
12 | It had been one of those days . |
13 | It had been one of those days when everything had gone wrong : the stake-out at the Saudi Embassy had produced exactly nothing ; a false alarm , and after six , agonisingly boring hours , Cowley had called through the most welcome of messages : Go home lads . |
14 | ‘ It 's been one of those days , has n't it , Robyn ? ’ he murmured evenly . |
15 | Frankie had been one of those unfortunates . |
16 | ‘ Would James have been one of those people , by any chance ? ’ |
17 | Could it have been one of these specimens that succumbed to the examining blade of the paleopathologist 's knife ? |
18 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
19 | Sausage rolls or something Yes that 's er had a for that we cou we stopped there at I 've never been up that wa that way at that 's about the farthest north I 've been one of these coaches erm two , two , two or three times and er and er I 'd seen that Betty 's on er on television before . |
20 | Nordhausen had been one of these places . |
21 | and erm but erm even so getting to and from the bus was a bit of a problem , unfortunately I 've never had erm been one of these people who have got the nerve to erm go about a great deal by themselves and erm being up in London you know , immediately before the war I had erm , it was n't very easy getting about so erm and erm I was n't very |