Example sentences of "[vb past] with one " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might still be necessary to ask why delinquency occurred with one son or daughter but not another . |
| 2 | By the time she reached the shorter flight of stairs on the half-landing , Frankie had retreated all the way to his room and closed the door behind him , leaving only the smallest gap through which he peered with one eye . |
| 3 | As good-luck would have it , he was in a stronger position than usual , because , as he mentioned with one of his quick smiles , the University of Bristol was about to give him an honorary degree , one of the fourteen that he was to accumulate . |
| 4 | It was the fringe of the Conservative Party , and those prominent politicians who moved to the fringe , who disagreed with one or more of those policies — ranging from the Lord Rothermere , the press baron , to Winston Churchill and , eventually , Anthony Eden . |
| 5 | All spoke here of man 's work — his enterprise , his pleasure ; stately hotels vied with one another , handsome shops displayed in their windows all the luxuries one might expect in the great cities of the realm . |
| 6 | The actresses , of course , were frequently loaned gowns by the house free of charge for the publicity that would be gained when they were pictured wearing them , and there were those among the society women who considered themselves above coming to the couture , ordering instead from the videos that nowadays replaced the weeks of shows of the old days — and staying away all the more determinedly as the great Paris houses vied with one another to tempt them to lend their presence to the occasion . |
| 7 | Even the most popular of girls soon discovered that in this highly competitive world where models vied with one another for the most glamorous jobs and the wealthiest and best-looking men there was far more bitchiness than in the provinces — and Paula was far from popular . |
| 8 | Essentially based on war , too , were the martial associations , the orders of chivalry , election to which was itself an honour and a sign of good military reputation , whose members vied with one another in the stakes for further recognition born out of daring and courage shown in war . |
| 9 | My fellow schoolboys vied with one another for admission to the cinema , so that they could witness X-rated films . |
| 10 | We vied with one another in trying to remember the order in which the stations came . |
| 11 | Jason gestured with one hand . |
| 12 | Sally sat close to Edward on the bench seat and he drove with one arm around her , somehow managing to change gear with his right hand . |
| 13 | He drove with one steady hand while the other held the gun pressed hard into Mr Chan 's side . |
| 14 | In the jeep , he drove with one hand , putting the other over hers on her knee . |
| 15 | In America , the problem came with one of the more interesting surrealist ideas . |
| 16 | As she dragged Susan 's limp form away from the fire , she noticed with one part of her brain that a sheet of paper had just begun to burn . |
| 17 | That happened with one American actress whose very name now depresses me . |
| 18 | He arrived with one or two colleagues at 11 p.m . |
| 19 | She tells us that when she met with one of her sons ‘ against his will ’ , they quarrelled , because she , ‘ some deal moved with sharpness of spirit ’ , insisted on telling him to flee the perils of this world ; the young man , doubtless angry at his mother 's squandering of his inheritance , ‘ sharply answering back ’ . |
| 20 | Nine out of ten of the users known to each agency lived with one or more adults , and the majority lived with one or more children . |
| 21 | Nine out of ten of the users known to each agency lived with one or more adults , and the majority lived with one or more children . |
| 22 | Could our good Christian Mrs Dallam possibly expose her daughter , and her friends ' daughters , to a woman like Marie , who has shown herself on a public stage for money , and lived with one man while married to another ? |
| 23 | For , as Prior of Scone and its guardian , he bore round his neck the Brecbennoch , the little silver reliquary casket of St Columba which was all the Celtic church could bring to any battle while its Abbots of Iona and Armagh and Kells disputed with one another in the turmoil of Irish battle , Irish famine , Irish plague , demanding the grace of St Columba and first claim to the aid of his relics . |
| 24 | Not that I ever went into the house , for the doctor 's surgery , which he shared with one other , stood in Witney High Street where it widened into the market place . |
| 25 | I qualified with one of the then Big Eight , but subsequently joined a smaller practice where the only difference between audit and accounts preparation work was the size of the fee . |
| 26 | The religious political factor was merely one of several major recurring problems during Barbarossa 's reign , all of which interacted with one another . |
| 27 | People who were just names on laws ( Max Planck , Louis de Broglie , Werner Heisenberg , Paul Dirac … ) come alive in these pages as the reader discovers how each learned his trade and how the different characters interacted with one another . |
| 28 | There was a common sequence to nearly every teaching session observed : the teacher settled the children down ; explained the tasks ; allocated children to groups ; interacted with one or more groups while they worked ; initiated finishing off or tidying up . |
| 29 | I put this theory to Walter Avrili , mortgage expert with John Charcol and he agreed with one proviso . |
| 30 | ‘ I know , ’ she agreed with one of her tiny smiles . |