Example sentences of "[adv] to one " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strong wind tore through the trees whipping the branches fiercely to one side while the rain swept across their faces . |
| 2 | For racial nationalists , all these influences led inexorably to one conclusion . |
| 3 | Alice could see that it was not going to be easy for any of them to admit obligation to Jasper , even though he was being correctly impersonal , sitting somewhat to one side of the scene waiting for their approval , the image of a responsible cadre . |
| 4 | The shiny black central sphere flicked suddenly to one side , jumped as if touched , like an animalcule at the bottom of a microscope imprisoned by the tension of a viscous fluid . |
| 5 | The recommendations which flowed from this committee , published in 1919 , owed much to one member , Raymond Unwin , and it is from this source that earlier years of experiment in site planning ( focusing particularly on density and layout ) , house design and standards of accommodation finally came to fruition as national policy . |
| 6 | I noticed that when Pyke was about to talk he put his head thoughtfully to one side and looked away into the distance . |
| 7 | Pushing a chair gently to one side , he placed it on the table and sat down . |
| 8 | Hands gripped her shoulders and moved her gently to one side . |
| 9 | Then , stretching out one hand , he pushed her very gently to one side and strode past her into the living-room . |
| 10 | At night in the lounge of the Commercial Hotel he and Bunny read her notes aloud to one another . |
| 11 | One evening , David , Barry , Christina and John Hutchinson were all sitting in my front room and talking about what we could actually do to earn some money It was suggested that we might go down to one of the local pubs which held regular jazz nights , to see if they had an evening free and perhaps we could run a folk club just one evening a week and maybe charge people to come in and make a few pennies for ourselves . |
| 12 | Prudent housekeeping kept purchases down to one horse ( £10 ) , a hay mower , some tools , and a box number advertisement in The Times seeking new member and which was moderately successful . |
| 13 | This could in theory be rounded up to one in four or down to one in three . |
| 14 | Kneel down to one side of your partner ( or stand if you are using a massage couch ) . |
| 15 | In this case I begin with two on a 16 , and if necessary go down to one caster on an 18 . |
| 16 | ‘ They do n't graze like a herd of sheep and keep all the vegetation down to one level , ’ says Robson . |
| 17 | But the government shielded consumers from the worst excesses of inflation by reducing the community charge burden , and businesses kept their price rises down to one of the lowest levels for 24 years . |
| 18 | Stigma make a very good 50 mm , f 3.5 lens with a full macro facility , which is capable of focusing down to one inch and giving one to one magnification . |
| 19 | A parent company can surrender its ACT down to one or more 51% subsidiaries . |
| 20 | The Queen of Beauty can not be pinned down to one expression , and every female image of beauty that is created is only a single realization of a great range of possibilities . |
| 21 | The qualities of the Queen of the Night , as with the other eight archetypes , can be discovered in a variety of personal and cultural contexts ; none of the Nine can ever be pinned down to one final form . |
| 22 | This remarkable machine will , if pressed , test fibres down to one tenth of a square micron cross-section ( that is , virtually invisible in the optical microscope ) and about a quarter of a millimetre long . |
| 23 | If that change can be put down to one man it is Bob Brett , who took over coaching duties from Balazs Taroczy in February last year . |
| 24 | When he discovered I could play the piano , whenever we were off together he dragged me down to one of the older lecture rooms in the Medical School basement that happened to possess a piano , to thump out the background beat . |
| 25 | ‘ Unfortunately , in all the confusion of evidence , it seems to have come down to one brother 's word against the other . ’ |
| 26 | Usually it all comes down to one solution — more money — and when that has been arranged , the battle with the builders is re-arranged to contain the damage . |
| 27 | Any unwanted guest soon found himself bundled down to one of the lower floors . |
| 28 | The giant database operator is extremely unforthcoming , but it 's hard to keep these things quiet and our spies tell us that at the last count — which was about a year ago , it was a three-way split between IBM Corp , down to one 3090-300S and one 3090-200 , Amdahl Corp with a 5990-1400 and two 5990-1400As , and Hitachi Data Systems Inc with three EX/100s ; at the time , there were also 350 of IBM 's disgraced RT Unix boxes , and 21 IBM System/88 fault-tolerant machines . |
| 29 | Attendances were down to one million per week . |
| 30 | From there I walk down to one of the main boulevards . |