Example sentences of "to one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The danger is , once people acquire an appetite for burning buildings down , sooner or later they will set fire to one with someone inside . |
| 2 | You will have to come to one with us . ’ |
| 3 | I never thought it would 'appen to one of me own children , the youngest too , what I was always most fond of . ’ |
| 4 | We have seen to one of them . |
| 5 | We told the child that there was a chocolate in one of the boxes and that he had to point to one of them — guessing of course — to tell the experimenter where to look for the chocolate . |
| 6 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
| 7 | I can still hear stuff , but it sounds swishy like when you listen to one of them curly sea shells . |
| 8 | According to one of them God drives back the waters of the sea by a strong east wind , and causes a mysterious panic in the Egyptian camp . |
| 9 | And she had set fire to one of them . |
| 10 | She 'd received only two or three serious propositions throughout her marriage — serious in the sense of coming from a man of intelligence and sensitivity — and to one of them she had yielded , in a matter of weeks . |
| 11 | I here were other police present , and after the announcement she spoke to one of them about her sister Laura . |
| 12 | The rule for identifying the relevant variables was given in chapter 12 : when we are assessing the direct effect of one variable upon another , any third variable which is causally connected to both variables and prior to one of them should be controlled . |
| 13 | It is not necessary to control for anything , since there are no other variables connected to both age and income and prior to one of them . |
| 14 | An imposter arrived claiming to be related to one of them , and whilst he was alone with the bodies he drove a wooden stake into the heart of each . |
| 15 | I said to one of them that if I wanted to take advantage of them it would be then . |
| 16 | ‘ Last year ’ — she smiled mischievously — ‘ something really awful happened to one of them . |
| 17 | If a club is relegated — which happened to one of them in 1990 — the shares will fall steeply in value . |
| 18 | ‘ I ai n't going to one of them council homes , I ai n't ! |
| 19 | The only clues to the identity of the telephone bidders was that German was spoken to one of them by the saleroom staff . |
| 20 | Little point in saying he was godfather to one of them . |
| 21 | His triumphal entry into Jerusalem , for example , represents an attempt to conform to one of them . |
| 22 | Rayne started the bidding at a guinea and after some brisk competition among the gentlemen at the foot of the stairs it was knocked down to one of them for five guineas . |
| 23 | A resolution proposed at the 1912 National Union Conference tells the whole story ; originally the resolution approved , " the candidature of Unionist working men and earnestly recommends the allocation to one of them of a safe and suitable seat at some by-election in the near future , as evidence of the reality of the movement " . |
| 24 | I have given my filth-preference vote to one of them , and together with other much-transferred votes it may determine his election . |
| 25 | It is no panacea for the teacher with discipline problems , but has its contribution to make to one of them . |
| 26 | It would be artificial to limit our understanding of style to one of them , let us say authorial style , and exclude the others . |
| 27 | Gravelle ( 1985 ) points to an implicit assumption which , when relaxed , gives rise to one of them : " that either no managerial effort is required to reduce costs or that such effort does not yield disutility to managers ' ( p. 115 ) . |
| 28 | There are other difficulties in making an order in such a case as this where a number of defendants have been equally involved in committing a crime , for the purpose of which a vehicle belonging to one of them has been used . |
| 29 | Well we went to one of them they went to one of them there . |
| 30 | Well we went to one of them they went to one of them there . |