Example sentences of "one [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The investigators had also come into possession of what was said to be Fhimah 's personal diary , improbable though it must have seemed to them that a trained intelligence agent would keep one or put anything in writing , let alone the incriminating English word ‘ taggs ’ ( sic ) in the middle of an entry in Arabic and then , according to media reports , leave the diary behind for the investigators to find . |
| 2 | Do you think this was er special to your family that you were treated as you were n't a brainy one or do you think that was the way girls were generally treated ? |
| 3 | The problem was the other Voice in her head , the one that could silence all the rest , the one that brought its pictures with it , the one that poured memories into her mind until she thought she would burst . |
| 4 | I did notice that we could see through the one that brought us here , ’ said Twoflower . |
| 5 | This process seems to have been handled badly , even if it is not one that lends itself to sensitive treatment . |
| 6 | That 's the one that uses it . |
| 7 | When it comes to finding a new job , you 'll obviously start by trying to get one that uses your existing skills . |
| 8 | M. Lheureux plies Emma with a foretaste of false comfort : he tells her consoling stories of lost dogs which have returned to their masters despite great distances ; why , there was even one that made it all the way back to Paris from Constantinople . |
| 9 | He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires . |
| 10 | At that one at the Big Shops , the guy that ru okay it might be the guy that runs it not the one that owns it |
| 11 | He 's the one that done it and they do n't want to know no different . ’ |
| 12 | make the point you know I 'm sure you found this useful , what particular area was the one that excited you the most , yeah ? |
| 13 | so you just wan na revisit it and say oh I 'm sure you found this document has been really useful this evening and out of those five areas we discussed , you might wan na consolidate it a bit , which was the one that excited you the most and that 's your retirement savings you know |
| 14 | The problem of the physical and sexual abuse of children , which has become a dominant theme of family studies and of the work of the social services in the 1970s and 1980s , is increasingly seen as one that replicates itself across generations . |
| 15 | They run away from the ducklings and the ducklings have to follow them , and chase them as it were , and the one that catches them , is the one they feed . |
| 16 | As it was , the five weeks seemed like a lifetime , and it was one that took its toll of parents and children . |
| 17 | I was the one that took him from her and it was n't a good scene . |
| 18 | They tried to make Jim had done his own coach , the one that took us over |
| 19 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 20 | And if this chap said , the one that took it that night , he said there is no point in him doing it because he did n't have the coaches insured for enough . |
| 21 | I thought I had that in my introductory letter , the one that says we 're a small company making recordings , we 're currently collecting recordings of erm sort of English as used in everyday situations and we would like to record on your premises if we may . |
| 22 | There 's one that says we live in parallel |
| 23 | There 's the one that says you can get up to two years for ‘ incitement to disaffection ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ The one that says you own the world and all that 's in it , that says you ca n't for the life of you figure out why I 'm not jumping for joy at the prospect of staying on here , in this house , as your grandmother 's companion . ’ |
| 25 | and that was for that , then I had a letter back to say that we were having , there was too much money coming in a week for me to draw unemployment and then they , then a few days later I had this double page letter a big one that says you are entitled to no prescription help , X amount of pounds after erm eighty pounds per glasses you are responsible for the first eighty pound , we say that you can afford to pay that , so much on your teeth , if you 're visiting somebody in prison then you exceed a certain amount of mileage you can only get it if you exceed more than twenty five pound incurring , then I thought oh blow it , forget it , and I never done it , that all come to then , that 's why I wanted a ten of your wage , wage slips you remember now ? |
| 26 | He was the one that got me pregnant and he says that I ca n't come home at all now and I phoned the hospital , yes , and they said that come in and if I go in then you 're going to arrest me and then you 'll just call my dad like you always have done every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 27 | He was the one that got me pregnant . |
| 28 | He was the one that got me pregnant . |
| 29 | but you would be the one that got it wrong at the end of the week if you did n't |
| 30 | It is the demand to feel better , for one of the most basic injunctions of all is the one that tells us tautologically , that worthwhile people do not feel worthless . |