Example sentences of "i [verb] one [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally .
2 I asked one of the Commandos lifting the dead Germans .
3 I asked one of the medics who was unloading the wounded .
4 And at night I asked one of the young men who was helping us , one who had come with the carters , to help me load the saint on to the wagon , to go to Ramsey to the aid and succour of our misused house .
5 For one thing , I doubled one of the songs using a Gibson Chet Atkins model .
6 At tea I made one of the mistakes of my life .
7 " In the year 1889 " , he wrote forty years later , " I made one of the fatal mistakes of my life .
8 One I mean one of the reason 's that we 've actually changed these round and and do n't think it 's right is because the has a there 's been a cut cut cost cutting exercise within the building .
9 I 've done that I mean one of the sad things about the stage door club is due to the design of the building you 've really got to be looking to go there .
10 Also , I mean one of the things that the Council is considering doing , I mean this interest , I know that other people from around this area come into Harlow , one of the things that the Council 's thinking about is erm , is charging , or has debated , charging different rates for people who are coming in than , than those who live here .
11 I mean one of the points we made there was that the infrastructure is vulnerable .
12 I mean one of the things I was taught when i my training for work with children , was that erm , it 's alright to use big l long words , for children , as long as you explain to them what the words mean .
13 I mean one of the problems with probation I think to a certain extent is that er obviously if you get these people who keep going into prison and coming out again , er it 's really pretty difficult to erm er influence their behaviour positively probably .
14 A little tip for you I mean one of the things I do when I 'm writing a training manual or something like that , I will actually write my open questions in really bold letters on the script .
15 I mean one of the problems and also perhaps losing benefit of housing .
16 I mean I must be honest , I did not feel that frightened erm it was n't an acute pain that that I mean I mean one of the things that one has to realize , you can become a heart attack bore .
17 Well , in the in the question of I M R O as far as it 's erm occupational pension scheme members are concerned , er there 's no there 's no compensation responsibility and I think that that means that you get no , no whistle blowing and in I mean there 's , we 've got , I mean one of the points that we , we heard of just last evening was that one of the of the banks involved ended up er in its arrangements with Maxwell of asking for a hundred and sixty per cent of shares for every hundred per cent of loans that it made to Maxwell .
18 I mean and I think it is the lack of the regulate the er the regulatory control of city actions , I mean one of the points that we 've been recently been advised on is that one of the city institutions which has already been er fined , er from its London office on a technicality is in effect the New York and London offices are deemed to be one entity and I think that er what we 've been advised is that erm I forget the phrase , I wrote it down here somewhere , that what we would be advised to do is to take action against that particular city institution in New York , because that er it is deemed that the London and New York actions are in fact one and that the that er what in fact the er and I think the f yes , there it is , that , that in a way though what we 've been advised is that the basis of that action would be that the organisations London and New York operations are essentially the same operation and bound by a strict know your customer rule as mandated by U S Securities Law , you know .
19 Derby , but I mean one of the any aggro , the stall any hassle is in Covent Garden , which is a tourist place that was between two .
20 yeah , well yeah I mean one of the blokes I he said just over a pair of
21 Well it was newish but er I mean one of the couriers mentioned it to us and I said well I du n no whether you want to pass the information on , whether you know , maybe you do n't .
22 Well I mean one of the women I spoke to that I mentioned in that piece felt strongly that schools were laying too much on children in terms of taking responsibility for how the world is , and she erm mentioned in particular erm the kind of ecological issues that lots of schools and teachers are taking up now and erm children are becoming involved in projects for , you know , recycle this that and the other and there 's a book , is n't there , ‘ The Children 's Green Guide ’ or something .
23 Yes , but one I mean one of the things that I think is often smuggled in to discussions of class is value judgements erm along the lines of one class is better than another .
24 You know the old adage that , I mean one of the reasons is it 's so much easier to come up with a scandal , to come with a rats in the basement or something like that and intrigue people , than it is to come up with some , the positive angles .
25 And a lot of them have emotional problems ; I mean one of the girls I talked to here who 's dealing with calls says it 's difficult , you get some people who get very angry with you because you do n't have news for them .
26 That morning I went to the hospital with the excuse of visiting an old woman who was a patient , and while I was there I met one of the carabinieri in the corridor .
27 And just last Two year ago I met one of the older kind and oh she was n't pleased where they used to do their put their camps .
28 Halvard , I compressed one of the files ok and then mailed it to myself first to see if I was getting everything right .
29 As I biked up St Giles ’ yesterday afternoon I passed one of the group walking up to North Oxford .
30 It 's only four months since I got one of the big boys from the Sardinian gang that operates here . ’
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