Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1780s , when Highgate Hill was so steep and deeply rutted that carriages regularly failed to make the grade , and the drive to town sufficiently dangerous that a wise man went with pistols , a merchant called Thomas Roxborough had constructed a handsome house on Hornsey Lane , designed for him by one Henry Holland . |
| 2 | She [ mother ] did n't really know about it until one day the doctor came here and … she said … |
| 3 | Apartments had been booked for them in one block and they shared in couples . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I walk with them round one point of the island , till we see the pyramid of Taquile . |
| 6 | He was looking at her with one eyebrow cocked . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You were gon na work for them at one point Rich . |
| 9 | Oh I think an electric drill it was in the sixties so with the twenty five pounds off it brought it down a bit and I , I paid for it with one cheque so I was n't having it on the weekly er er it worked out I think Vicki gave some of it towards it . |
| 10 | ‘ I slipped it in my pocket and forgot about it till one day when I was down at yon ford and I took a swig and , by God , it 's potent . ’ |
| 11 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 12 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 13 | I felt myself moving towards him like one cloud drifting into another . |
| 14 | my Lord I I do have some other observations on matters with Mr but it maybe more economical and effective on the new issues to wait until after Mr has addressed you and to deal with them at one point |
| 15 | Those who would wish to take it in parts please show those against taking it in parts this evening we will vote on it as one amendment in that case . |
| 16 | It 's a very distressing erm syndrome for many women and er there 's quite a lot of evidence that it 's hormonally linked and most women suffer from it in one way or another . |
| 17 | When seeing practice he was very selective in the cases he wished to observe , but he was immediately attracted to Cedric 's symptoms and insisted on coming with me on one occasion . |
| 18 | Met Headteacher and asked if he would be willing to extend the time our pupil spent with them from one day to three after Christmas . |
| 19 | He had only his sword , and my men were coming at him from one side , and Sapt and Fritz from the other . |
| 20 | At present , a very large number of people are exposed to it in one way or another . |
| 21 | I mean we all live in a society where people wear clothes and we 'd probably feel a bit ashamed if we did n't have to wear any , but if you grew up in a society where nobody wears clothes , you would n't , would n't bother about it for one moment . |
| 22 | I thought of it at one ti me , but I knew I 'd make a mess of it . ’ |
| 23 | Buddie suddenly reached behind him with one hand , grabbed Frankie by the sleeve and yanked him from his seat at the table . |
| 24 | The problem , the problem with Germany is , as you say , they 're flooding the market , they 've , they 've gone at it from one end only . |
| 25 | The stream was marked with a blue line and what looked like a child 's drawing of a ladder lay across it at one point . |
| 26 | The man at her side wore sea boots and a thick white sweater , and he looked at her with one eyebrow raised , a small , teasing smile lifting the corners of his mouth . |
| 27 | The fact is that , in an age when players were never encouraged or expected to be adaptable , the only positions that Billy did not fill for us at one time or another were those of goalkeeper , centre-forward and centre-half . |
| 28 | Jealous of Lubor ? ’ and did n't know where she was when , as if he did n't think much of sitting opposite her in one chair while she had the huge couch all to herself , Ven suddenly moved from his chair and came and sat down next to her on the couch . |
| 29 | But only lately have we come to think of it as one body , however large and interconnected it may be . |
| 30 | ‘ Though maggoty meat and people with one eye did come into it at one point . |