Example sentences of "with one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late Forties , just as her career was sinking to its lowest ebb , and an English critic commented of her notorious egomania that ‘ only bad films are good enough for her ’ , she returned in triumph with one of her most brilliant performances , as the ageing but feisty actress Margo Channing who , to her emotional and professional cost , learns All About Eve ( directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz , 1950 ) . |
| 2 | Showing the Princess in conference with one of her dress designers did nothing to allay the view that she spent an inordinate amount of money on clothes ; and broadcasting the Prince 's remark that he talked to the flowers in his garden was a bad mistake . |
| 3 | Kylie dismisses this with one of her favourite phrases , ‘ It 's the Tall Poppy syndrome , ’ she explains . |
| 4 | A scrawny nationalist in tattered jeans tried to grill him on independence for the benefit of the cameras and a woman in Capaldi 's fish caravan threatened to slap him round the face with one of her fish if he broke any election promises . |
| 5 | She arranged a meeting with one of her former mandarins , who was able to refresh her memory on many points . |
| 6 | But she had woken with one of her banging headaches , so that was that . |
| 7 | His sister Elizabeth had preferred not to attend the ceremony for fear of appearing to condone his alliance with one of her housemaids , and the Bradfords ' staff had been equally disapproving of one of their number presuming to move up into such illustrious circles . |
| 8 | The youngest child in the family , not yet old enough to be at school , was on a shopping trip in Kirkwall with one of her oldest sisters . |
| 9 | And I remembered how my father had once interfered when Bobby 's wife Ena had lost her temper with one of her sons . |
| 10 | She tells us that when she met with one of her sons ‘ against his will ’ , they quarrelled , because she , ‘ some deal moved with sharpness of spirit ’ , insisted on telling him to flee the perils of this world ; the young man , doubtless angry at his mother 's squandering of his inheritance , ‘ sharply answering back ’ . |
| 11 | Nancy Shuttle with one of her Victorian tanks . |
| 12 | In two strides the Trunchbull was beside him , and by some amazing gymnastic trick , it may have been judo or karate , she flipped the back of Wilfred 's legs with one of her feet so that the boy shot up off the ground and turned a somersault in the air . |
| 13 | Sybil , up in Hampstead or with one of her many friends , kept the home fire burning and joined the gang when they had a special bash . |
| 14 | He was removing his thick leather belt with one hand and struggling with one of her buttons . |
| 15 | When a length has been rigged between one radial cable and another , she gives it a twang with one of her legs and the glue breaks up into a line of beads . |
| 16 | The spider may wait for developments sitting in the centre of the web or she may retreat to the side and lurk there with one of her eight legs resting on a cue-line through which she will feel movements in the trap . |
| 17 | She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats . |
| 18 | Burun grinned , and Kiku answered with one of her rare smiles . |
| 19 | Editor , — Barbara Harney has misunderstood the point of the case that we reported , and we disagree with one of her assertions . |
| 20 | Amanda did not reply , but the following week she returned to Dublin with one of her five siblings and this time visited the Rotunda . |
| 21 | With one of her smallest smiles she glanced at Caroline as if affecting surprise to see her there . |
| 22 | Rachaela made coffee , and tea for Jonquil with one of her herbal tea bags . |
| 23 | With one of her fast movements she went into the passage . |
| 24 | There are times ’ — Rose 's face took on the fierce expression of a schoolgirl talking about her most hated teacher — ‘ when I 'd like to brain her with one of her own golf-clubs ! ’ |
| 25 | It had been midday Monday before she mentioned , in conversation with one of her regular customers , that MacQuillan had been to the Black Friar . |
| 26 | ‘ I got to know one girl at the local teacher training college , and now if she is n't available she puts me in touch with one of her friends . |
| 27 | Shah Jehan soon came to hear of Jahanara 's orgies , and according to Bernier , resolved to surprise his daughter in flagrante with one of her secret paramours : |
| 28 | She returned his warm grin with one of her own . |
| 29 | Before he could do so , however , an aproned , curly-haired housekeeper appeared through a side door , pushing it open with one of her ample hips as both hands were occupied in bearing a tray . |
| 30 | DOREEN Barnett , seated , with one of her retirement gifts , says farewell to her colleagues in the potting department at Imperial Pottery after 27 years ' service . |