Example sentences of "one [noun] i [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon I went to the Chelsea Hotel , to see the 1990 Tarum , shown with hats designed by Philip Somerville . |
| 2 | In one case I know of , two friends resolved to escape because they had heard their parents ‘ scheming ’ of such marriages in the near future . |
| 3 | ‘ One Sierra I looked at had done 112,000 miles but the dealer could n't tell me whether it had been once or twice around the clock . ’ |
| 4 | One agent I met with admitted that I was known in the business as a ‘ bit of a cheap turn ’ . |
| 5 | One girl I went with was a translator for an embassy ; she did n't seem to be that interested in the money and was happy to stay the whole night with me . |
| 6 | - This one truth I find in you |
| 7 | ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’ |
| 8 | At one point I traversed from the red bolts ( off route ) to the green bolts ( also off route ) without finding the silver bolts I was supposed to be on . |
| 9 | At one point I felt as if I was drifting slowly across a huge , vivid moviescreen , so large I could n't see its edges . |
| 10 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 11 | Thoreau wrote of an Eternal City of the West , and for long , I groped to understand what he meant by it and I still do not know ; but one evening I saw in the brick red mass of cloud and fire of the sunset what seemed like a great city of the West and I wondered if this was Thoreau 's vision of America . |
| 12 | One evening I called at the shop for some matches . |
| 13 | One teacher I interviewed in my middle school study , for instance , felt she had not been well treated in the reorganization to a middle school set-up and had resisted the head 's attempts at change ‘ We do n't , some of us do n't change so easily ! ’ |
| 14 | Like tea — we have the same brand each week — but if I know it 's cheaper in one shop I go into that shop , just to get that one thing — like I got it for 1 //6; this week and it 's usually 1 //11; — I like to get the best , but cheaper . |
| 15 | ‘ How did they get the £250,000 spare wealth needed to qualify in the first place ’ , is one theme I hear from these envy-driven commentators . |
| 16 | One meeting I had with him occasioned an episode that has become public . |
| 17 | On one occasion I went to a hospital in south London to what the police reckoned would be a very rough demonstration . |
| 18 | Yeah , but she said I were called one night I went with her daughter-in-law |
| 19 | One night I went into a petrol station to buy Pot Noodles and ended up robbing the place . |
| 20 | Late one night I whispered to him that I was worried that the Yanks were taxing him too hard , that his lucid arguments and eloquence were being weakened by constant niggling at everything he said . |
| 21 | One night I peeped through the keyhole , this time the light on the landing had been left on , there was poor Ma in ha nightie , pale as a ghost , staggering , literally staggering , along the wall with her black-ringed eyes almost shut moaning , ‘ All right , I 'm coming , I 'm coming . ’ |
| 22 | One night I stayed with Volodya |
| 23 | One night I dreamt about it : about the dog going over to look at it , as it sometimes did , and instead of sniffing it and walking away , it tore open the anus and started to pull out the innards . |
| 24 | ‘ One Sunday I drove around the well-to-do area of Stoke Bishop , and next morning the Post Office had run out of licence stamps . ’ |
| 25 | I was not unhappy to be sitting opposite an attractive lady from Coll and there was only one person I knew of who lived on Coll . |
| 26 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 27 | For example one person I worked with was a single parent who had five dependent children living with her , and no other adult appeared to be involved . |
| 28 | ‘ One day I return to these people , and this time I ask that they do a favour for me . |
| 29 | I am not what one day I hope to be , |
| 30 | ‘ And one day I came across this tiny cottage . |