Example sentences of "one [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking items at random , for 17 shillings one got a ‘ good inch elm Coffin , smoothed , oiled , and finished with one row round of black or white nails , a plate of inscription , four handles , lined and pillow ’ ; whilst for £9 one could buy the pièce de résistance , a ‘ 1½ inch Oak Case , covered with superfine cloth , finished three rows all round , and six ornamental diamonds , with best nails , lead or brass plate , glory and urn , four pairs of cherub handles , and four dozen rays or stars ’ . |
| 2 | well because there was three of us we went , it was seven hundred and one , like , their go , first bloke got a hundred and eighty , next one got a hundred and forty , this one got a hundred and twenty and me and Matt got about forty each and Rick and we were stuffed just bit , have you been watching any of the darts ? dead interesting |
| 3 | well because there was three of us we went , it was seven hundred and one , like , their go , first bloke got a hundred and eighty , next one got a hundred and forty , this one got a hundred and twenty and me and Matt got about forty each and Rick and we were stuffed just bit , have you been watching any of the darts ? dead interesting |
| 4 | There are two main types : one fits a standard 16in or 18in fireplace opening , and the other is self-contained in a firebasket or ‘ dog-crate ’ on a large rectangular hearth , sometimes with a canopy flue . |
| 5 | And that represents not one family but two family each one represents a number of children , the misery that this is causing absolutely immense . |
| 6 | I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 7 | One created a presidential republic . |
| 8 | In one place a television ‘ red head ’ ( 800 watt ) light set off the sprinkler system with hysterical results . |
| 9 | One involved a small unit in the form of a bedsit-type hostel with facilities for 14 residents . |
| 10 | There are two teams and each one has a jug of water . |
| 11 | Overlooking the village green , in a pretty conservation village , this fine Victorian house has a half-acre garden , two greenhouses ( one has a vine that produces heaps of succulent black grapes ) , a sunken-terraced garden with lily pond and an affectionate three-legged cat . |
| 12 | There are two lounges , one has a wood-burning stove , the other a TV and videos on the surrounding area . |
| 13 | One has a dog 's head , another a boar 's head , a third a bull 's head and the fourth a bird 's head . |
| 14 | It ca n't be Junction 12 , since that one has a double roundabout , and it ca n't be Junction 10 , which has Duxford next to it . |
| 15 | In comparison with the other two passages , this one has a rather low frequency of nouns ( 4 ) ; moreover , over half of these nouns are abstract ( 20 ) , referring to entities which exist on a social or psychological plane : effort , subject , terms , money , feelings and aristocracy all occur in the first sentence . |
| 16 | Another recently asked my advice about the finer points of his own computer program so that he might catalogue more accurately his card collection , so vast had it become ( if any one has a mint Drummahoe No 1 , he would be most indebted ) . |
| 17 | If one has a case of tetraplegia aggravated by exceptional features such as an exceptional degree of pain , the guideline figure will be increased . |
| 18 | He was suspended for one match a year ago after a skirmish with West Ham 's Mitchell Thomas and in January was fined £1,500 for abusive gestures to fans before a match at Arsenal . |
| 19 | No one writing a report should be without a Roget 's Thesaurus . |
| 20 | Once the show was on , life was fairly easy with one show a night lasting from 8 till 11.30 pm seven days a week , and matinées on Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 21 | They were glad to be sent to Cannes to recuperate with only one show a night . |
| 22 | At one show a ‘ posse ’ of 400 kids were waiting outside to ‘ get ’ the band and one of their roadies was attacked by a youth with a knife . |
| 23 | At one show a ‘ posse ’ of 400 kids were waiting outside to ‘ get ’ the band and one of their roadies was attacked by a youth with a knife . |
| 24 | If one built a road a lot further out which is the case with the road shown in the structure plan key diagram , use of that road would represent a major diversion for local traffic , which would therefore be much less likely to use it . |
| 25 | The following month two treaties , one establishing a European Economic Community ( EEC ) and the other a European Atomic Energy Community ( Euratom ) were duly signed by the Six in Rome and referred to the national parliaments for ratification . |
| 26 | It would not , they say , have abolished competition : his ‘ Grand Lodges ’ , each directing its own industry , would in effect have been the head offices of huge joint stock companies owning the entire means of production and subject to no control by the community ; and they would have been able to revert to the capitalist form of enterprise , admitting fresh generations of workers only as employees and not as shareholders ‘ thus creating at one stroke a new capitalist class and a new proletariat ’ . |
| 27 | Slow lingering illnesses may require only one remedy a day or less . |
| 28 | The first verbal description we have of this scene of Wagnerian grandeur dates from 1481 when William of Worcester ( despite his name a Bristolian born and bred ) described the camp on the Clifton side as ‘ founded before the time of William the Conqueror by Saracens or Jews or by one Ghyst a giant in the land . ’ |
| 29 | And there was only one cut a year . |
| 30 | The maximum radiation exposure of members of the public resulting from BNFL 's activities was also well below the level recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection of one millisievert a year . |