Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] one [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own preference when using these elite units is to mass them in a body to provide the heaviest punch possible and then unleash them against one section of the enemy line with the hope that the breakthrough will start a general rout of the enemy force . |
| 2 | As they strolled deeper into the gardens she became aware that the Pantominteatret was by no means the only form of free entertainment , as their progress led them from one area of performance to another . |
| 3 | They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another . |
| 4 | Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie . |
| 5 | This is reflected in Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( Scarborough ) Ltd [ 1987 ] 1 QB 933 where his Lordship maintained that the purpose of buying a car was : … not merely the purpose of driving it from one place to another but of doing so with the appropriate degree of comfort , ease of handling , reliability and … pride in the vehicle 's outward and interior appearance . |
| 6 | Alcock found it within one minute of starting his regular binocular search of the sky , after nine nights of cloud . |
| 7 | Then split the cards face down into three different piles and take a card from the middle pile and place it on one side of the outside piles . |
| 8 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 9 | Opening the car door , the boy took my hand to lead me towards one side of a three-sided , bungalow-styled villa . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , I put them on one side for you . |
| 11 | They will entitle you to one eight-pack of Gold Series Part Two and , as a special bonus , one eight-pack of Part One worth 30p each PLUS a copy of the brand new official WWF merchandise catalogue from Squared Circle . |
| 12 | THEY will entitle you to one eight-pack of Gold Series Part Two and , as a special bonus , one eight-pack of Part One , worth 30p each PLUS a copy of the brand-new official WWF merchandise catalogue from Squared Circle . |
| 13 | Apparently , the free spending Italian club AC Milan were so taken with him that they offered Celtic a fee of £100,000 for his services , only to recoil in fear when the club 's manager Jock Stein told him they could only rent him for one game for that amount . |
| 14 | I think she should mentally wrap him in a parcel , tie it tight with string and put it on one side for the moment . |
| 15 | The tent-pole bag was torn , so I put it on one side with the sewing kit . |
| 16 | They got ta do it with one hand in their pocket . |
| 17 | If a fond mum sends you back after a weekend at home with your favourite fruit cake , do you keep it in a tin under the bed and eat it secretly , or demolish it at one swoop by sharing it with others ? |
| 18 | The name Tourmalet means literally ‘ bad way round ’ , but that was a billing which the col earned in more demanding times than the present , when there was no proper road over the pass but when you could hire porters to carry you from one valley to the next by chair . |
| 19 | Many of the residents in homes for the elderly have no family , and many that do never see them from one year to the next . |
| 20 | It was a tool to help me from one point of safety to another ; it carried not only the tent , camping equipment , and food , but the weightiest item of all , water . |
| 21 | ‘ He says the players would often not see him from one day to the next . |
| 22 | Some kung fu clubs place a blindfolded student amid a circle of fellow students , who attack him with one technique at intermittent intervals . |
| 23 | A wild urge to uproot himself , coupled with unhappy years of accumulated bitterness , threw him into one assault after another . |
| 24 | Er but there are of course h n while we 're on that point there are , I 'm afraid , there are s people who take advantage of Marks and Spencers , erm because they know there 's going to be no problem about having goods exchanged so what they do , they buy something from Marks and Spencers wear it on one evening for , for a party or special occasion |
| 25 | The idea is to buy a stick , then drop it ; not throw it mind , but drop it on one side of the bridge and hope it beats the others past the finishing line . |
| 26 | The switchboard on the ground floor of the Questura was manned by a chubby youth who was holding a large roll , turning it from one side to the other and studying it closely like a wrestler looking for a hold . |
| 27 | The working of a material can convert kinetic energy into potential energy as an aesthetic process ; just as the energy expended in lifting a one kilogramme weight to a height of one metre invests it with one kgm of potential energy . |
| 28 | For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another . |
| 29 | Bassett said : ‘ It 's my fault for messing him about , switching him from one flank to the other then playing him through the middle . |
| 30 | Some study how fe move it from one country to another |