Example sentences of "it in one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 2 | If he could find convincing words to say it in one striking and memorable phrase , he might be truly on his way . |
| 3 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 4 | A party supporting the government , yet differing from most of the other members of it in one specific particular : its opposition to the tariff . |
| 5 | This was certainly how Keynes saw it in one of his last memoranda , in February 1946 . |
| 6 | Doyle seemed wary and the Woman had started to fidget with her long tail of hair , holding it in one hand and drawing it through the fingers of the other . |
| 7 | Flip the lid and down it in one , like an oyster . |
| 8 | The spacious boot coped admirably with everything they could cram into it in one week — picnic hampers , the weekly shopping , even the latest buys from Sue 's visits to the garden centre . |
| 9 | After about twenty stamps , he gives a big sigh , pours out a glass of wine , downs it in one , swings his great leg out of the window and off he goes . ’ |
| 10 | In 1733 , the Apothecaries erected a marble statue by Rysbrack to their most generous benefactor and placed it in one of the rooms of the orange house , but in 1748 it was moved to the centre of the garden , where a replica stands today . |
| 11 | Today we had one of those famous assault courses , followed by a ten-mile forced march ; my platoon did it in one hour and forty minutes , which is not too bad . |
| 12 | Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece . |
| 13 | He took a sheet of Gordon 's notepaper and typed a short note to Alan Bleath , thanking him for his recent contribution to the stimulating seminar on lenses of a high refractive index , signed this with a fair approximation of Gordon 's hand and put it in one of the ‘ Gordon Beamish : See ? ’ envelopes , addressed to Alan Bleath , 329 Carradine Road , Mitcham . |
| 14 | ‘ If I had to drive back to Tangier now , I 'd do it in one go . |
| 15 | HE LOOKED for the second picture , found it in one glance , and the blood shot hot to his heart . |
| 16 | Parker downed it in one swallow . |
| 17 | I know , we 'll put it in one big lump and you can share it . |
| 18 | ‘ You do n't know which end is up , do you , piggy ? ’ she said , wiping his bottom with the clean nappy and then with it in one hand and Alex under the other arm she went back into the bathroom . |
| 19 | It was customary to fly a flag at half-mast when anyone connected with the May weekend died so , not to be beaten , committee members managed to obtain a telegraph pole , paint and erect it in one weekend so that old Amos would not be cheated of this sign of respect . |
| 20 | Sarah finished the washing-up and , taking off her apron , folded it and placed it in one of the table drawers . |
| 21 | But he was the same as ever — just went in and did it in one take . |
| 22 | As a piece this was undoubtedly a composed solo , and although on the record quite a few of the phrases were ‘ dropped in ’ , it is obviously possible to play through it in one pass . |
| 23 | That 's it in one word — John Smith , surely the next leader of the Labour Party , has gravitas the way other people have niceness . |
| 24 | We have noted already the fact that her passing coincided with a most virulent attack of cholera : no fewer than two thousand people in London succumbed to it in one single week in that September of 1849 . |
| 25 | And then I finished it in one go . |
| 26 | This is quite useful as it means there is a real point to damaging the Steam Tank even if you can not destroy it in one go . |
| 27 | I wrapped up a bottle of Grand Moulas in a newspaper for safety , put it in one of the panniers and went on my way . |
| 28 | So widely dispersed was industrial activity that there can have been few parts of the country that did not support it in one form or another . |
| 29 | By the second half of the fourteenth century , few in France could claim not to be involved in it in one way or another . |
| 30 | Tear the slip out and hand it in at any Midland branch ; or put it in one of the AutoDeposit machines that have been installed at a number of our branches . |