Example sentences of "one [noun sg] i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I went to Drake Hall on one sentence I was waiting for another court case as well , a conspiracy case , a big one . |
| 2 | One afternoon I was bundled on to an open lorry where about 40 others were already shivering in the late autumn frost . |
| 3 | One afternoon I was going back into my hotel when a fat man came and stood in front of me . |
| 4 | Nicknames are a favourite pastime with small boys and so during the next four years and one term I was known to my school mates as ‘ Pavement ’ . |
| 5 | I think of one lady I am counselling as I write this . |
| 6 | One evening I was bringing in a basket of apples from the garden , when a voice behind me said , ‘ Ellen , is that you ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If you think for one moment I 'm going to wear another woman 's ring while you make love to me you 've got another think coming … ’ she choked . |
| 8 | Cooper was not in court to hear the judgement , but the effect on McMahon was explosive : ‘ One moment I was sitting bent over in the dock in utter despair , the next I was on my feet with arms outstretched , screaming at the judges . |
| 9 | One moment I was revelling in the astonishment of being alive , and the next — I was lying flat on my face , with what felt like a very large hole in the right side of my skull … |
| 10 | On one occasion I was breaking in new territory in Lincolnshire and my fellow ‘ artiste ’ — a male singer who shall remain nameless — moved in on me . |
| 11 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
| 12 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 13 | You know , one minute I 'm thinking Marie 's my girlfriend , and then all of a sudden she says she 's got a husband and that . |
| 14 | I said , Oh yes , and if you think for one minute I 'm taking pathology forms to your room , I said , you must have had . |
| 15 | You do n't think for one minute I 'm going to eat the filth I give to you ? |
| 16 | I mean I was , one minute I was walking round , I had n't touched anything another minute it was catching my finger . |
| 17 | ‘ One minute I was hammerin' . |
| 18 | ‘ One minute I was going to Forest , the next it was all off . |
| 19 | And now that it is 8.58 pm and I have done fifty-eight minutes of work , which I deem to be more than enough for one night I am signing off , because , I 'm lazy . |
| 20 | One night I was joined by a visitor to Seend , anxious to be of help , Colonel Faithorne , who was some relation of the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and who showed intellectual interests , including a knowledge of Eliot , which I was not to meet again in a soldier until I made the acquaintance in 1974 of my late father-in-law . |
| 21 | One night I was working late and I started to need to jerk off . |
| 22 | I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night ! |
| 23 | One night I was woken by a slight noise . |
| 24 | ‘ One day I 'm going to be famous , too , ’ she vowed silently . |
| 25 | ‘ One day I 'm going to be a star . ’ |
| 26 | A little voice , a nasty , calculating little voice whispered in my ear that one day I 'm going to need a reference from Swallow . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ One day I 'm going to ring that bell , ’ said Jasper , puffing away . |
| 28 | One day I 'm going to chop my through those rhododendrons and wake you from your hundred-year-sleep , Sleeping Beauty . " |
| 29 | ‘ One day I 'm going to own a shop in Chelsea . ’ |
| 30 | One day I 'm walking with her beside the river , and I 've got my arm round her shoulders , and she 's put her arm round my waist , and we laugh at everything , and stop every few yards to kiss , and think , this is fantastic ! |