Example sentences of "[vb past] on one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ventured on one or two occasions to suggest that he might find some way of dispensing with her services . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ethel knelt on one knee while Sid stuck his banderillas in her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She knew she did not have the strength to throw her voice through the stillness so she knelt on one knee . |
| 6 | That if you like , er , and I 've used this example before but I 'll use it again , it was quite interesting I think anyway , is that one of the examples we used on one of courses , is that somebody calls into the depot and says , I need help , I 've got to get this delivered by tomorrow and collections or you or whoever takes the call , is very excited because this person says it 's three hundred and fifty kilos and I need it today , it 's Durham , we 'll use Durham , we 're starting from here , in Durham tomorrow morning . |
| 7 | Kevin Garvey ( Warley Encon ) drew on one of the two warm water outfalls and won the 27 peg Square Open on the Lifford Canal with 6–4–12 . |
| 8 | We stopped on one side of the narrow road . |
| 9 | ‘ Grey Alert ! ’ the reporters used to say when Mr Major approached on one of his studiedly dull campaign photo-opportunities . |
| 10 | They bought white cotton sheets with lace borders and matching pillow-cases , blue towels with white alamandas appliquéd on one corner , a collection of decorative shells for Elaine 's bathroom , and an assortment of locally made wicker baskets . |
| 11 | ‘ Nothing above the belly or below the knee tonight ! ’ he exclaimed on one of these evenings , savouring the rowdy songs and bawdy rhymes which resulted . |
| 12 | Ecstatic , the boy tried on one mask after another , roaring like a lion or mewing like a cat . |
| 13 | Repelled yet attracted by the ferocious masks , she finally tried on one or two , but there was no mirror where she could see herself , although she felt peculiarly feline or vulpine according to the mask she wore . |
| 14 | It crashed on one side of a thick hedge . |
| 15 | He did an ever expanding trade in cars and trucks under his big red neon sign , which proclaimed on one side FRIZZELL 'S GARAGE — YOU CAN TRUST MAXIE , and on the other FRIZZELL 'S GARAGE — I GREW WITH ALBERTA . |
| 16 | Sarah said sarcastically , but he dropped on one knee and put his hand on his heart . |
| 17 | At the moment he seems to be veering towards the idea that if you did more good than bad during your life you go straight to Heaven , an arrangement which at least processes the merit of simplicity ; the rest sounds like something dreamt up by a vindictive bureaucrat on acid while closely inspecting something Hieronymus Bosch painted on one of his bleak but imaginative days . |
| 18 | Tears still glistened on one of her cheeks . |
| 19 | Note that the Middlesex Crown Court case of Langham v Crisp [ 1975 ] Crim LR 652 where a motorist parked on one side of the road and an obstruction was caused by the subsequent parking of cars opposite . |
| 20 | Next time he came on one of these recces he would bring a bag for these trophies , but the chinagraph pencil had worked well in noting on his slate the depths of water and the position of that false beach . |
| 21 | The crunch came on one of the last of the old-style weekends at Althorp . |
| 22 | A solicitor friend of his who came on one of the shoots did a big favour for one of the beaters . |
| 23 | My father , unfortunately , he came on one of their little barrels out the glen but it was empty . |
| 24 | Some members who had not taken a journey by train and particularly by steam train for years came on one or both of our trips on the 22nd of June ( Central Wales Line ) and the 15th of July ( Severn Valley ) , to recapture the atmosphere . |
| 25 | I 've just had a phone call in I 've just erm had a phone call from a conference company and she and part of her research the woman in came on one of my courses to just see what the background and what we were doing . |
| 26 | Yelling a warning , which would have been far too late anyway , she watched in astonishment as Leo pivoted on one foot , and with a movement too fast for her to follow pinned Ryan up against the wall by his throat . |
| 27 | Creed stared out of the window , his chin cushioned on one hand , his eyes doubly concealed , first by the tinted windows of the car , then by his sunglasses . |
| 28 | By contrast , policemen are interested only in what happened on one particular occasion in the past , which they are not able to recreate in laboratory conditions if only because they do not know what happened . |
| 29 | The French boy turned on one of his fierce expressions of shock and outrage and leaned back from the waist to subject the American boy 's now-blushing face to pantomime scrutiny . |
| 30 | Clements turned on one of his innocent smiles . |