Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old shed door hanging on one rusted hinge , would swing no more and had crashed to the floor . |
| 2 | This Minton did , afterwards taking Tindle back to Hamilton Terrace where his large picture , The Death of Nelson , still in progress , was hanging on one wall . |
| 3 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 4 | So and then erm , of course they start bringing in one man buses and the conductors were no longer required . |
| 5 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 6 | AFTER tearing down one wall , the Germans are busy putting up thousands of others . |
| 7 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 8 | The Luggage came ambling down one of the other passages that radiated from the room . |
| 9 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 10 | As he was walking along one of the long , green-painted corridors he ran into John Postlethwaite . |
| 11 | The Kingdom of God was central to his mission , the expression occurring over one hundred times in the Gospels . |
| 12 | In signing off one night , at the end of the news , there was time to mention one or two events that were being held in the region . |
| 13 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 14 | Because it was an old house that they were renovating , and it had got so much rot in it and woodworm , and he said he said he said th there they were walking up one minute and the next minute the piano was just going down through the stairs . |
| 15 | ‘ We were doing some vocals and Damon ( Albarn ) was in one of his mad moods and was climbing up one of the acoustic screens they had in the studio . |
| 16 | Imagine walking out one day and thinking about the light . |
| 17 | There was a hole in the ceiling to let in the rain but just to be safe he returned every day for a week to water them and was walking back one afternoon when , turning a corner , he felt a hand on his shoulder . |
| 18 | She was walking back one day , her baskets empty , her spirit almost peaceful for once . |
| 19 | Experts say we 're knocking back ONE MILLION pints of beer a day LESS than we were a year ago . |
| 20 | then you start here … in the world of karting … each and every sunday in the summer these little machines will be buzzing and blasting around one of the tracks in the country … |
| 21 | The Happening ( tonight , Channel 4 , 12.40am ) is , says Jools , a : ‘ psychedlic vortex of music and love with guests and talent of extraordinary high stature lifting you all the time … and all happening around one grand piano ! ’ |
| 22 | John Turner had been a loom tuner ( a maintenance engineer ) responsible for maintaining over one hundred carpet looms for another large company . |
| 23 | Looking down one of the Avenues is like looking at the inversion of a sunset . |
| 24 | She had a gold filling in one of her back teeth . |
| 25 | Thereupon turn right into Between Towns Road , heading towards the Cowley centre , and passing over one mini-roundabout . |
| 26 | When he came back he was carrying the calf , his arms encompassing all four legs , so the hooves came together in a bunch , with the rump and tail protruding over one forearm and the shoulders and chest over the other . |
| 27 | Her hat was a stained velvet Rembrandt , fruit lurching over one ear , and her dark glasses made her a parody of Bette Davis 's cameo wicked eccentrics . |
| 28 | The savagery in his face was such a horrifying contrast to his recent ardour that Isabel shrank back in terror , stumbling over one of the benches . |
| 29 | Quite naturally , the islanders wondered if harmonious timber wolf existence included picking off one or two tasty schoolchildren as a light snack between main meals of venison , and strangely the idea has been put to one side for the moment . |
| 30 | If you have to do the collating yourself , lay each separate page-pile next to each other around the room and go round picking up one page after the other , until you have the whole pamphlet together . |