Example sentences of "one to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donald felt the pressure from her and stared from one to the other , letting them feel his defiance and distaste . |
| 2 | This can be expressed in Hume 's terms of the tendency of the mind to pass from one to the other , but one must be careful how one interprets such a tendency . |
| 3 | Tell that one to the Palace press office ! |
| 4 | Tell that one to the White Rabbit . |
| 5 | The movement of Conrad 's Marlow back to Brussels and London is the movement back from the realization that death and life are one to the simple considerations of drinking , having a tune , and paying the rent , however much these may be ‘ nothing to me and nothing to you ’ . |
| 6 | Fanon 's apparent ignorance and misrepresentation of women and feminine sexuality has been remarked before ; less so his equally problematic representation of homosexuality , and the way he slides from the one to the other : ‘ the Negrophobic woman is in tact nothing but a putative sexual partner — just as the Negrophobic man is a repressed homosexual . ’ |
| 7 | Wexford looked from one to the other . |
| 8 | Adeane had strongly advised against the controversial speeches of the past year , especially the one to the architectural profession . |
| 9 | It was considered bourgeois to own or rent an appartement , so the artistic community of St-Germain-des Pres lived in hotels , paying daily for their night 's — or day 's — rest , flitting from one to the next as circumstances demanded . |
| 10 | In that final quarter , though , Wooderson had a lot of people to pass — on the inside , of course , for this was a gentlemen 's race — and he zipped smoothly from one to the next to the finish line . |
| 11 | We took them down to Max 's Kansas City and gave one to Micky Ruskin the owner , we gave one to the DJ ; and we gave one to Lisa Robinson , the reporter . |
| 12 | The dividing line between border and pathway melts as plants spill over from one to the other . |
| 13 | The letter was a little like the earlier one to the anorexic organisation , asking : Do you think ? and Can you tell me … |
| 14 | ‘ The area between Benghazi and Sirte ’ : the road from the one to the other is 400 kilometers long , and so the area implied is very large . |
| 15 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 16 | He would place two cigarettes in his mouth , light them both , then hand one to the sex-starved spinster , sometimes even going to the length of installing it between her lips . |
| 17 | Like all really good recipes , the proportion of one to the other is entirely arbitrary and you could use canned rather than fresh pineapple . |
| 18 | Originally a mere footpath through fields , Charles II had decided it was a better route to Hampton Court than one to the North , through the village of Knightsbridge . |
| 19 | It is relatively easy to move from one to the other . |
| 20 | Some of the most popular include the one to the Salzkammergut and St Wolfgang a trip round Austria 's beautiful Lake District with a stop at St Wolfgang , home of the famous White Horse Inn . |
| 21 | Then he dragged them out into the cockpit , making one corner fast to the main sheet winch on the cabin roof and one to the starboard jib winch . |
| 22 | Experts continue to disagree about how to extrapolate from one to the other , although it is generally accepted that even the smallest dose carries a health risk . |
| 23 | Second , again the suspicion must creep back that the exclusive concentration on the individual blinds one to the real business of government , which is to co-ordinate and control large populations . |
| 24 | A second argument designed to show that neutrality is chimerical claims that whether or not a person acts neutrally depends on the base line relative to which his behaviour is judged , and that there are always different base lines leading to conflicting judgments and no rational grounds to prefer one to the others . |
| 25 | Mrs Marsden looked from one to the other in confusion . |
| 26 | Tenison looked from one to the other uncertainly . |
| 27 | I remembered moving from one to the other , explaining : I am a writer ; the notebooks are what is precious to me . |
| 28 | ‘ You think I should keep two establishments and sneak furtively from one to the other like some sort of guilty adulterous cad ? ’ |
| 29 | Sir George looked from one to the other . |
| 30 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |