Example sentences of "[verb] on one " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may conceive several alternatives but we can only act on one of them . |
| 2 | Having seen just one or two pieces of the jigsaw , but the police did n't act on one or two pieces they put the rest of the jigsaw together and what did they have . |
| 3 | I ventured on one or two occasions to suggest that he might find some way of dispensing with her services . |
| 4 | In 1975 , two nature lovers were boating on one of the bay 's rivers . |
| 5 | It was only sometimes that I 'd wake and find Bernard snoring on one side of me and Uncle Bill giving an occasional snort on the other . |
| 6 | There were no houses in sight : the wooded mountain rose on one side of the old railway track and fell steeply away on the other . |
| 7 | Ethel knelt on one knee while Sid stuck his banderillas in her . |
| 8 | Next he jumped in the air with his feet together and his knees bent , then he knelt on one knee while she leapt into the air . |
| 9 | She knew she did not have the strength to throw her voice through the stillness so she knelt on one knee . |
| 10 | The science department consists of 5 laboratories , together with ancillary rooms , located on one site and is served by 2.5 technicians . |
| 11 | A very warm and friendly 3 star hotel located on one of Delft 's historic canals , The Koornmarkt , the hotel is only 3 minutes walk from the main square and 5 minutes from the railway station . |
| 12 | The question of exactly which left handers have speech located on one side of the brain or the other and which of them have speech represented bilaterally can not yet be answered unequivocally . |
| 13 | Also , there is a 14 amino acids long putative alpha helical region at positions 328 to 341 containing 8 alanine residues , 6 of which would be located on one side of the putative alpha helix . |
| 14 | The specific provision at Southwark includes a basic education programme located on one particular housing estate . |
| 15 | The peaks of these complexes are successively located on one side of the baseline and then on the other , and this positive then negative polarity in the frontal plane of the ECG creates the typical twisting-about-a-point appearance ( fig 1 ) . |
| 16 | Astonishingly this is the second recording of the work to appear within the space of a year , and it has the advantage over its predecessor ( on C ) of appearing on one disc instead of two , courtesy the omission of all the recitatives — no great loss in this case , I feel . |
| 17 | What happens when you ‘ plate ’ is that you get the main yarn appearing on one side of the fabric and the plating yarn on the other side . |
| 18 | Er and therefore the the overall effect is a more of spreading the traffic than simply it all appearing on one route . |
| 19 | BLACK SQUARES — A player landing on one of the black House of Commons gate squares may throw again , unless they have more than 325 votes and are trying for Number 10 . |
| 20 | I think if you were to analyse what I play , I 'm landing on one of those three notes a lot , mostly on the third ; I play a lot of third-based melodies . |
| 21 | Beetles , landing on one , immediately cut through the mid-rib . |
| 22 | From Isafjördur the best way to explore Iceland 's north-west is to jump on one of Ernir Air 's mail planes . |
| 23 | because we 've got three things happening on one night |
| 24 | IN this issue of Nottingham Graduate we report on one of the most significant developments in the University 's recent history — the opening of the new Arts Centre . |
| 25 | When a Vet first takes up running — or resumes after a long lay-off — he or she can count on one thing : several years of improvement . |
| 26 | Clough 's rock-bottom Forest have not won away all season , Coppell 's second-to-bottom Palace have not tasted victory at home — but both managers can count on one thing … their jobs are safe as houses . |
| 27 | Well , that 's always supposing you can get him in the first place , because the number of people who have actually seen him , you can count on one hand . ’ |
| 28 | Now if you get these right , word for word you 'll be er , I do conditions of carriage quizzes on selling skills courses and the amount of people that get this right I can count on one hand in the last three years . |
| 29 | The association with a traditional barn incorporating porches has been skilfully exploited in order to broaden the width of the building at its centre so that an enclosed entrance porch and a generous ‘ dog-leg ’ staircase , giving access to the first floor , could be included on one side , while the equivalent projection on the west side houses an oriel window serving the dining-room which gives a commanding view over the Cherwell Valley . |
| 30 | His height , four inches over six feet , was formidable enough , yet he also carried the muscles to match his inches and this evening he looked even more threatening for he hefted an oak cudgel and had a long-barrelled horse-pistol thrust into his belt and a British army rifle slung on one shoulder . |