Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 2 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 3 | I guessed it was the shock of Froggy 's death , and the tension of caddying for one of his contracted professionals . |
| 4 | If a mispricing remained after allowing for one of three different levels of transactions costs , this constituted a signal to engage in arbitrage . |
| 5 | Now I 'm not suggesting for one moment that anybody who has all the problems that dear Mr has there , but I think we might be able to learn something , do you ? |
| 6 | I 'm not suggesting for one moment it 's easy , but I mean is it possible that , you know erm accepting that this is a major conflict , it does involve all of us whether we like it or not |
| 7 | If you have embarked on this decision , entertaining friends at home may became increasingly difficult too , for your parent may look forward always to being present on these occasions , without realising for one moment that her daughter needs the opportunity sometimes to be able to relate to her friends alone , so that she can project her personality freely and share confidences and opinions with people of her own generation . |
| 8 | Cooking for one |
| 9 | Hundreds of gypsies are gathering for one of the biggest horse fairs of the year . |
| 10 | If the polls do influence people in this way , then we are truly stepping through one mirror after another . |
| 11 | A novice struggling through one of Manze 's pies — crisp golden pastry on top and soggy pastry below — is quickly spotted and given a cursory instruction in the art of pie-eating by a Bermondsey-born professional . |
| 12 | He went silent and dark and withdrew into himself , the two thumbs rotating about one another as he sat in the car chair by the fire . |
| 13 | He rapidly became one of the prince 's closest friends , accompanying him on his crusade of 1270–2 and appearing as one of his executors in the will which Edward made at Acre in June 1272 . |
| 14 | Beyond this point the rows of atoms will subside into repose in the next valley and shearing through one atomic spacing will have occurred . |
| 15 | In April the Smolensk Party advised the Roslavl' cell that contributions to the Famine were tailing off in the Roslavl' area , so two new directives were issued : first , to collect another famine tax , with every twenty town-workers or employees supporting one hungry child , and every five peasant households contributing for one hungry adult ; second , to hold agitational meetings in all trade-union branches and at village skhod meetings . |
| 16 | Jazz , which has been dogged by crippling financial troubles , takeover battles and continual re-formatting , appears to be finally making headway after launching as one of London 's first incremental stations into the recession . |
| 17 | Are you mark knocking off one mark for each mistake ? |
| 18 | A bigger difficulty is that the premature announcement of merger talks may tempt other firms into bidding for one or both . |
| 19 | The decision followed months of intense lobbying fuelled by reports that black African countries were pressing for one of their candidates , notably the former Finance Minister of Zimbabwe , Bernard Chidzero , as the next UN Secretary-General . |
| 20 | The Trust surveyed 83 species , and found that 33 are nesting between one and 22 days early , in a trend which started in the mid-1970s . |
| 21 | Mr Jones was shocked at the cheek of a man who was only middle-aged , and had a house and a living , in applying for one of the new homes . |
| 22 | Wendy managed to get a job as a receptionist in a dental surgery to begin with and will keep applying for one of the hygienist training courses . |
| 23 | The UFC tried to get universities bidding against one another for student allocations , by offering to educate them more cheaply than the competition . |
| 24 | If this happens , Tit for Tat individuals , cooperating with one another in cosy little local enclaves , may prosper so well that they grow from small local clusters into larger local clusters . |
| 25 | Brian Bertram , working with David Bygott and Jeannette Hanby of the University of Cambridge , showed that males actually did increase their lifetime fitness by cooperating with one another ( Nature , vol |
| 26 | A gangpath ran from Corridor 11 , just by number 23 , crossing Corridor 12 high up , and twisting onto one of the stairs . |
| 27 | Even in the corn-exchange of a country town on a market-day the equilibrium price is affected by calculations of the future relations of production and consumption ; while in the leading corn-markets of America and Europe dealings for future delivery already predominate and are rapidly weaving into one web all the leading threads of trade in corn throughout the whole world . |
| 28 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 29 | The most obvious case is where we have a word ending with one or more consonant letters followed by ‘ le ’ ( or , in the case of noun plurals or third person singular verb forms , ‘ les ’ ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I feel like it , ’ Laidlaw retorted , climbing onto one of the bar stools . |