Example sentences of "and one [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Shown a pile of apples and two trees , one with three apples and one with none , and asked to make the ‘ empty ’ tree so it had more , children added apples until there were more on the empty tree .
2 Like yesterday cos when there 's two of them and one of me , says they put it out and look at
3 I need scarcely say that The Quarterly Review is one of the most profitable periodicals in England , and one of one 's best ‘ connections ’ , or sources of income .
4 Under the old concession , the Inland Revenue would give its approval to a group scheme which included a JOC provided certain conditions were met : the JOC was controlled by two people neither of whom controlled the company and one of whom was the grantor of the relevant scheme ; and the relevant scheme was extended to the JOC by only one of its two joint owners .
5 They had two daughters , one of whom died at the age of thirty-eight , and one of whom , Stephanie , was to appear in the Gubbins oeuvre as The Awful Child , forever asking awkward questions .
6 Sami Jafaar 's nephew , Khalid Nazir Jafaar , was a subsource of his , and one of whom El-Jorr seemed particularly proud as he was the favourite grandson of the drug clan 's patriarch , Moostafa Jafaar .
7 A cup from Locri ( fig. 111 ) with a satyr attacking an unperturbed maenad is by the Pistoxenos Painter , whose career seems to begin about the time of the Persian invasion , and one of whose earliest cups is the last to bear the name of Euphronios as potter .
8 But then the watching gods take a hand ; and one of them says that the great Roman god might not approve of a settlement in Africa , of a mingling of peoples there , of treaties of union between Africans and Romans .
9 Fourteen fucking quid fifty a pair and one of them disappears on a charity night ! ’
10 MANILA ( AP ) — Ferdinand Marcos ' followers petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to allow the late president 's body to be returned from Hawaii , and one of them threatened a huge protest if the tribunal turned them down .
11 Two senior research officers at the Home Office were also invited , and one of them made an excellent contribution .
12 Further on two men on horses say ‘ hello' to me and one of them , hearing my English reply , stops to talk .
13 The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss .
14 They wore the motley coat of jesters and one of them was hopping around on a hobby horse .
15 Some of our best writers are on the staff of the magazine , and one of them is Associate Editor Anne Boston .
16 And one of them is waiting for you .
17 ‘ There were several errors , ’ Doctor Staples said , ‘ and one of them was this unseemly wrangle in front of the patient . ’
18 If , on the other hand , I am in my early twenties and my parents are in their forties and one of them dies I will grieve in the same way , but am likely to be taken unawares and be unprepared .
19 Then one day , I was in this car with some blokes , and one of them said , ‘ Have you heard about this band , with a really good one-legged woman bass player ? ’
20 Two other tournaments intervened before the Masters and one of them at Houston was washed out with hardly , in cricketing terminology , a ball being bowled .
21 Two other tournaments intervened before the Masters and one of them at Houston was washed out with hardly , as would be said in cricket , a ‘ ball being bowled ’ .
22 The embossed iron doors were rusting and one of them had fallen off its hinges .
23 Seventeen Stormont MPs were taken on a tour of inspection by the University for Derry Action Committee and one of them , Dr Robert Nixon , the Stormont Unionist MP for North Down , declared that they had been misled by the Lockwood Report and that there was no shortage of suitable land or amenities in the city .
24 His sisters had curtsied to the vicar ; his brothers had gone to war in 1914 , and one of them had died at Vimy Ridge ; his father had been a farm bailiff and died in 1911 after being bitten by a horse ( misnamed Lucky ) .
25 By Jove , and one of them 's a — ’ He hesitated .
26 The two ambulance men now exchanged sharp glances , and one of them said , ‘ Robbie Felton ? ’ then added , ‘ Slipped and caught his head on a shovel ?
27 Left alone now , she fell into a troubled sleep and a dream in which her father was decapitating men in the back yard , and one of them was the nice young man whose name she did n't know nor from where he came .
28 And as I sat on the beach , I idly picked up some of the myriad stones lying on the shore , and one of them surprised me with its remarkable colours — it was pure marble glistening and sparkling with mica particles imbedded in it .
29 We find this subgroup has precisely 12 patterns and one of them F 2 R 2 F 2 R 2 F 2 R 2 = ( F 2 R 2 ) 3 has the particularly simple effect of exchanging the positions of two pairs of edge pieces ( UF , DF ) ( UR , DR ) , as shown in Figure 7 .
30 For example , if there are several quite unrelated species of unpalatable butterflies living in one particular region and one of them has evolved a warning pattern of black , yellow and red markings , it will pay the others to follow suit because they will then all share the ‘ training risks ’ associated with novice predators .
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