Example sentences of "to one [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the size absolutely , to the size of the audience so if we say a one to one we 've got a certain level of conversational power if you say so with a group like this it has to be |
| 2 | They go using mallets and chisels , and ten to one they 'd extend the fracture line . |
| 3 | By twenty to one they had finished . |
| 4 | Ten to one you 'll never find out who did this , anyway — I mean , it 's not going to worry Mr Bishop , is it ? |
| 5 | Ten to one you 'll find that they hate the idea but are going along with it because they do n't want to be thought of as the oldest fuddy-duddy parents in town — little knowing that their consent is the only reason why other parents are being unnecessarily liberal . |
| 6 | I think they were about a hundred and fifty to one I 'm standing see if they can win the league . |
| 7 | I mean one Friday I come , I left here about ten to one I went in the house and I went to bed and I was starving and Gordon says oh I 'm hungry I , so I went out straight down the stairs , come back up with a bloody big tray cups of teas now when I , after drinking down here , pasties now what I 'd taken home what I did n't sell here , crisps , sandwiches and a after I 'd ate it I felt so guilty . |
| 8 | Well they were knocking one night well gone twelve , about twenty to one I think it was , still banging and hammering , and I 'm sure if I rang him and said look you know pack it up this , he 'd , he 'd say oh I 'm sorry yeah and he will , but you should n't have to do that |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll lay three to one he 's still sane , ’ Dickinson offered . |
| 10 | Ten to one she 's going to throw her . ’ |
| 11 | It 's a mindless game and the odds are twelve to one it wo n't come out , so I am left to think in the slow gloom . |
| 12 | Obviously their chance at the draw bag is now four to one instead of one hundred to one , and even allowing for the fact that they will undoubtedly be called lucky so and so 's for drawing well all the time , with odds of four to one it is not so surprising . |
| 13 | Whereas one to one it 's just you and that particular you know business . |
| 14 | Er yeah , quarter to one it was . |
| 15 | Ten to one it wo n't match . |