Example sentences of "and one [prep] my " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They keep sheep in Magdalen grove now , and I hear the fleecy care bleating all day long : I am shocked to find that none of my pupils , though they are all acquainted with pastoral poetry , regards them as anything but a nuisance : and one of my colleagues has been heard to ask why sheep have their wool cut off . |
| 2 | He took us up to see the students , and the very first ones I saw were Sonia Lawson , already a highly gifted artist , daughter of my friends Fred and Muriel in Redmire ; and one of my best students from Corsham , the vivacious , beautiful and witty Helen Dear , the shining light of my so-called ‘ duds ’ . |
| 3 | I was only about five and a half when she too died after a long illness and one of my earliest recollections is riding in the well , at the foot of her bath-chair when she went out for constitutionals . |
| 4 | So was I. The expectant mother was sixteen years old and one of my students at the school in Barcelona where I was five months into my first teaching job . |
| 5 | Gem of the district , and one of my favourite places in the world , is Kramer 's Bookstore and Afterwords Café , with a wonderful array of literature , political and other books . |
| 6 | I tried water and one of my mother 's Marcel wave grips , a bulldog grip with extra teeth , curved like a miniature coathanger . |
| 7 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 8 | Then , too , there are the marginals who somehow seep into the paddock , and one of my unhappiest memories of Emerson 's decline has to do with the opening of the season which in those years invariably began with the Argentine and the Brazilian grands prix . |
| 9 | It was something of a shock to see one Polynesian , his face a wide grin , trot down the gangplank carrying a sack of flour on his head and one of my suitcases in his right hand . |
| 10 | As the president himself said later , ‘ The fight for equitable health care was one of my major efforts and one of my great disappointments . ’ |
| 11 | One night he came back , ripped the bedclothes off and one of my kids managed to get out somehow and call the police . |
| 12 | I do not remember whether we enlivened the day with a penny ride on a donkey round the White Stone pond but I regarded these donkeys with the respect and admiration rarely afforded by the keenest jockey for his mount and one of my day-dreams ( only once realised and then somehow a little disappointing ) was to save up three weeks ' pocket money and have a 3d ride in place of a Id one , which took you for at least a hundred yards along the Spaniards Road . |
| 13 | Erm I 've got a Mercury account at home and I 've got it set up so that after the Mercury number you type in a user code , and one of my user codes is for the business . |
| 14 | And one of my jobs was to push these empties round and round |
| 15 | He 's a great bloke … and one of my dearest friends . |
| 16 | They had two children , a girl of five and a boy of two , and one of my first jobs was to take the little girl to school . |
| 17 | And one of my er had a , a just a tiny flaw in it . |
| 18 | And one of my experiences since the N H S reforms has been working in hospitals and hopefully defending our members ' interests . |
| 19 | I asked what it was and one of my companions said : ‘ It is the torso of a man who was [ this morning ] cut into three pieces . ’ ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Aye , me and one of my mates have been going round the Forestry Commission tracks up in the hills , goin' round at fifty , skiddin' all over the place like a speedway . ’ |
| 21 | For example if you go back to say Queen Victoria and Queen Mary and one of my former bosses was a godchild of Queen Mary and I mean he simply said to me talking not long ago about one of the nobody i people did n't behave like that at court so they 've really asked for everything they 've got . |
| 22 | So out I went , Halton is ringed with beautiful beech forests and one of my training runs just happened to take me through one of these forests where I felt I was utterly safe except for the birds and the bees . |
| 23 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 24 | I won three videos , two for me and one for my dad |