Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] one " in BNC.

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1 there , which I got off one of my
2 What lessons , anything arithmetic , mental arithmetic , dictation which I was bad at , my school report was about fair , fair , fair , poor , poor , poor , that 's what mine was , I only got about one excellent .
3 We fought as one nation during the war and of course those Englishmen here today old enough to remember the period will recall , I 'm sure , the young American G Is who were part of our community .
4 The vast majority of them had tried , and failed for one reason or another , to get into one or other of the local preparatory schools .
5 In the early afternoon the gate finally opened , and the crowd arose as one and began loading each other with boxes and sacks .
6 This creature was the nautilus and we can get an accurate idea of how it and its family lived for one species was destined , like Lingula and Neopilina , to become a living fossil .
7 She only asked for one word to be removed . ’
8 I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note .
9 Mrs Thatcher agreed to allow the Report to be sent out for consultation , but asked for one alteration .
10 Then he rang some film company in London and asked for one of the most junior men in the public-relations office , and the girl could hear the phone being put down on him .
11 ‘ He asked for one last Christmas and I insisted even though Barry — Mr Tuckett — thought it a bit childish . ’
12 Recombinant human tumour necrosis factor-α ( TNF-α ) ( Boehringer Mannheim , Germany ) ( 0.1–100 ng/ml ) was added to effector cells and incubated for one day .
13 After emptying and washing each well , 100 µl of sample or standard ( diluted 1 in 80 in phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.2 , and containing 0.1% Tween and 0.5% bovine serum albumin to prevent non-specific protein binding to the plate ) were added and incubated for one hour .
14 Along the way they passed through one or two collections of houses masquerading as villages .
15 If they fought for one side or the other , Standard Oil would be fighting Standard Oil .
16 Briefly , antigen strips preincubated for one hour in blocking buffer ( 5% non-fat milk powder in phosphate buffered saline pH 7.2 , containing 0.05% Tween 20 ) were incubated overnight at room temperature in serum samples ( diluted 1:100 v/v in blocking buffer ) or mouse monoclonal antibody GL2 that recognises Giardia heat shock antigen ( diluted 1:1000 v/v in blocking buffer ) .
17 A formidable businesswoman , Rebuck says she got as one of the original shareholders of Century , a ‘ substantial amount ’ .
18 Regular programmes began in July 1951 , when the station transmitted for one hour only , three days per week .
19 The experience of some players becoming emotionally spent in such circumstances is all too fresh from Derek White 's swansong at Cardiff last year — a performance which Scotland captain Gavin Hastings rated as one of the poorest in which he had been involved .
20 The Economic Development Services are situated in Beverley described as one of the most gracious market towns in the Country .
21 I think it 's very unlikely but I think it described as one avoid the greenbelt , to be seen to be er encompassing all possibilities .
22 Mr Moses paid tribute to Roland Bradford , a man he described as one of the Durham Light Infantry 's most celebrated soldiers .
23 But the study also reported for one of the five countries that babies of teenagers were at higher risks of birth defects , sudden death and other problems of birth and early infancy than were infants born to women in their early 20s .
24 I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol .
25 I spent so much effort and expense to outbid my rivals , I never stopped for one moment to consider if I really wanted the prize .
26 They really do n't seem to want to have that part closed off but that part along by the river and that seemed to be almost entirely er satisfactory to everybody and er Chairman fenced off one or two other people quite well .
27 These influxes were all associated with severe weather and numbers otherwise ranged between one and 24 annually , averaging about nine .
28 Now follow up ranged between one and fifty one months .
29 When he allowed his prime minister to make reassuring comments about France 's continuing role in Algeria or when he himself encouraged rumours that self-determination was just window-dressing for the UN , he was not merely deceiving people for the sake of his Algerian policy ; he was fulfilling what he regarded as one of the state 's sacred responsibilities : to keep the fabric of national unity intact .
30 An incident occurred during one session when the children were drawing together .
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