Example sentences of "one to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | When I saw this happening I began to watch more closely , and I saw that some nights even when she was n't up on the stage Madame had her eye on these two and would often look from one to the other and then back again . |
| 32 | Taking in every inch of their bodies , she said , looking from one to the other , she said , in her famously well-timed drawl , That 's just how I want you . |
| 33 | It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one 's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one 's ability and beyond , so that thereafter one has new standards by which to judge oneself . |
| 34 | The 1960s were marked by a strong interest in the relationship between primary and secondary education , and in possible changes in the age of transfer from one to the other . |
| 35 | Every time that sexual intercourse takes place with a new partner there is a risk that some disease will be passed on from one to the other and , with rare exceptions , there is no way of telling , by simply looking at a person , whether they have an infection or not . |
| 36 | However , on the morning of his funeral , two senior guests , reading their papers after breakfast , raised quizzical eyebrows : ‘ Well , the General will not be needing his loch this morning , ’ said the one to the other . |
| 37 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 38 | Sometimes a grammar school and a secondary modern school were located close to one another , even on the same ‘ campus ’ , in order to facilitate the sharing of resources , or the movement of pupils from one to the other . |
| 39 | She nodded from one to the other ; then watched the young man open the door and stand aside to allow his wife to pass before him . |
| 40 | She came in and bolted the door , then stood with her back to it , looking from one to the other . |
| 41 | Belle was smiling broadly and Agnes , looking now from one to the other , said , ‘ It is n't a hat then ? ’ |
| 42 | I 've never seen anything like it before , ’ and she was looking from one to the other , wondering which one it was meant to fit , when Miss Rene startled her by saying , ‘ Well , get your coat and things off and try it on . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ Oh , yes , yes ’ — the old lady nodded from one to the other at the table now — ‘ in a crocodile , from the school to the church , from the school to the conciergerie , from the … ’ |
| 44 | And , looking from one to the other , she now said , ‘ Goodnight , fellows , and a happy Christmas . ’ |
| 45 | Betty Felton now put her head back and looked from one to the other of her four sons and she said , ‘ Aye , there 's a confectioner 's an' baccy shop in that street . |
| 46 | She watched the big woman flop back and onto a chair , then look from one to the other of her silent sons as she said , ‘ Did you hear that ? |
| 47 | When at last they came to the lower end of Spring Street , Agnes stopped and , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ This is where I live ; I 'll be all right now . |
| 48 | Denis hesitated and looked from one to the other , then he put the paten under Noreen 's chin . |
| 49 | Environmental organisations have worked that one to the hilt . |
| 50 | Based on the teaching of Jesus about confessing faults one to the other , each brother chose another and they confessed to and directed each other . |
| 51 | There may be a need for transfer of the stock from one to the other , or for duplication for both sections of titles which are only held in one . |
| 52 | The end of the road to Flamborough Head brings one to the octagonal old lighthouse , built of stone in 1674 by Sir John Clayton . |
| 53 | There was quite a wide space between stone and stone , but Jenny felt sure that she could jump from one to the other quite easily . |
| 54 | They need to be tough minded as well as lovingly tender and to know when to ‘ change gear ’ from one to the other . |
| 55 | G. Gradually bigger blast furnaces were used , which could be integrated with larger steel furnaces with the metal passing still hot from one to the other . |
| 56 | Peg O'Malley commanded sharply , looking from one to the other . |
| 57 | Although the idea of regular bathing was a new one to the Britons , it soon became fashionable and was another sign of being properly civilised . |
| 58 | The two microphone techniques mentioned earlier were then rivals , and professional engineers and amateurs could not easily switch from one to the other , much less judge absolute fidelity . |
| 59 | Similarly , secondary education librarians point to the lack of continuity between primary and secondary education , The lack of continuity between the various sectors and the poor transference of skills from one to the other is partly a consequence of lack of co-operation between the different sectors , but also the dilemma of librarians at different levels as to whether they should focus on short-term or long-term information needs . |
| 60 | It takes one to the high , isolated polar desert at the height of the summer season . |