Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I used to worry about Darth Vader , ’ Prentice confessed , putting his arm round Rory 's waist and lifting his foot to massage it with one hand . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | But when I rejected everything of this sort to set myself to one purpose , my soul was absorbed with love for my Maker . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | It is also possible to arrange with taxi-drivers to drop you at one point and collect you some hours later from another . |
6 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
7 | Opening the car door , the boy took my hand to lead me towards one side of a three-sided , bungalow-styled villa . |
8 | People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night . |
9 | Because Lawren and Bess had an enviable collection of classical LPs I took it as an accomplishment to present them with one work they had not yet discovered but came to enjoy — it was the ‘ Eight Little Symphonies ’ by William Boyce ( 1710–1779 ) recorded in London by the Boyd Neel Chamber Orchestra — a delightful work in the manner of George Frederick Handel . |