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Example sentences of "one [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1	But although this hypothesis removes one difficulty it creates several more , as indicated by Guilcher ( 1958 ) .
2	One instant he had been running flat out , the next he had stopped , whipped round to face them , and dropped into a defensive crouch .
3	One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on .
4	For one instant I saw you , erect on tiptoe , ruling your orchestra and transfigured by the expression of a conqueror .
5	There 's one contract we sign with the advertiser but it is always er any price you quote is per annum .
6	You was n't allowed to smoke — that was one privilege they did normally let you have : if you were over fourteen you were allowed up to four cigarettes a day .
7	It also means that if one photographer you know and like is booked up the other one will probably be free to work with you .
8	If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan .
9	Eventually it became too much , and one afternoon we looked down to see the bowwab moving out .
10	One afternoon we became so depressed that we decided to drown our sorrows in drink .
11	One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea .
12	One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on .
13	One afternoon we went together to see an Italian filmed opera in a small cinema off Grafton Street which specialised in foreign films .
14	One afternoon we went for a walk to a nearby village where we met an old man with a stick and a long grey moustache who invited us home for tea .
15	And then erm one afternoon we went in a dug out canoe erm to look for crocodiles and we did actually see them on the banks of the river as we were going down in our canoe , so that was quite exciting .
16	One afternoon we went up to Croydon St. in Karori to look at our old house .
17	The nearest pub , a matter of some importance to me , and shop , were in Duns , and one afternoon we travelled there to re-stock depleted supplies .
18	After she went out one afternoon they decided to steal the equipment and had arranged a buyer for it for £130 .
19	Then one afternoon she came in smiling .
20	Then one afternoon she came by and she asked my what was up .
21	One afternoon she had lurked in the medical bookshop at the top of Gower Street and looked at glowing colour plates of carcinomas .
22	One afternoon she gave a pound short on the change which had showed up in emerald numerals before her face .
23	One afternoon I went out with another girl for a walk , with the idea of finding a quiet spot in the meadow we called the Big Field , to read and write letters .
24	One afternoon I went to the Chelsea Hotel , to see the 1990 Tarum , shown with hats designed by Philip Somerville .
25	One afternoon I went out riding .
26	One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening .
27	One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight .
28	One afternoon I had seen him painfully sewing on a shirt-button .
29	After hours , we went to a bar in Knightsbridge , where one afternoon I met a fifty-five-year-old Italian woman who was wearing white leather flared trousers .
30	One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing .