Example sentences of "[adj] one [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this one goes into a table . |
| 2 | His glass eye — he had lost the original when he was cleaning a gun — seemed to swivel further out of true than usual and stared pleasantly at the fire ; the real one looked like a razor . |
| 3 | It 's a long way from the wild west ; more of a vale where the only horse around is the white one carved on a hill nearby , but Uffington has become the annual venue for the national gun slinging championships . |
| 4 | She 'd doze off again with the little one curled like a cat between her stomach and arm . |
| 5 | She liked breaking off the plump red fruits , each one crowned with a stalk like a star . |
| 6 | Look for the Strong on Neutrals range from Cutex which includes four new Strong Nail polish shades — each one comes with a bottle of Colourless Strong Nail polish for £4.79 . |
| 7 | A good deal of wall space was taken up with framed photographs , each one labelled with a date and the location . |
| 8 | It is a process whereby jobs are placed in a rank order , according to the overall demands each one makes on a person doing it . |
| 9 | Detectives say thousands of £15 tickets have been sold for the illegal rave , each one accompanied by a map leading partygoers straight to 16th century Cobham Hall . |
| 10 | Well that one grows like a claw . |
| 11 | Oh , that one looks like a teddy bear not a bunny . |
| 12 | As a TO one wants to do as well as one can , and the paradox is that the better one does in a sense the worse it is for the voluntary movement , who should be persuaded to do the maximum rather than the minimum . |
| 13 | I can not explain this sentiment unless it was that I observed that the members of the household appeared not to have perfectly learned their parts and also that having seen and known the Emperor for so many years in such a totally different position , his present one looked like a dream or a play ; but when each actor becomes acclimatized by time it will be a magnificent Court , with a Sovereign who will command the attention of all Europe . |
| 14 | This is a tricky one to diagnose at a distance but I 'd put money on some kind of video configuration problem within Symphony . |
| 15 | Ricky was stripping the partridge leg with his teeth , very white and even except a front one chipped by a polo ball . |
| 16 | This is the highest honour any beer in Scotland can receive , because it is the only one decided by a ballot of regular drinkers , based on their experiences in a range of pubs over 12 months . |
| 17 | But the good mews petered out rapidly especially in the back row where O'Hara was the only one to come through a game against Old Wesley in Dublin . |
| 18 | In an indirect system , the only connection to the rising main usually permitted is the obligatory one going to a drinking water tap in the kitchen ( though some existing houses may have other connections — for a WC , for example ) . |
| 19 | The longer one opens with a series of petitions in which the meditator prays for grace to serve God with his whole being . |
| 20 | The Welsh One looks like a lizard on the front though , which is remarkable . |
| 21 | Was this a nuclear explosion or a mundane one caused by a build-up of pressure as the deuterium flowed into the palladium and filled some cavity within ? |
| 22 | The mighty Great Eastern not only laid a new cable ; it succeeded in hauling up the earlier one splicing on a centre-piece , and lowering it again to the sea-bed . |
| 23 | Users fell basically into two groups : there were the milder peace-loving ‘ Smile on your brother ’ types , whose philosophy was invoked by Jefferson Airplane 's hit record using that phrase , or the far more violent set who were emerging with hard rock and the free-as-the-wind Hell 's Angels , the unkempt , unwashed , tough and brutal rabble who were the built-in bad guys of the counter-culture ; they made the gangs in Rebel Without a Cause and Brando 's The Wild One look like a Sunday school gathering . |
| 24 | There are a number of such challenges , but the interesting and I think significant one comes from a group of Palaeontologists , of whom Stephen Gould , now of Eldridge , erm and Stephen Stanley are probably the best know . |
| 25 | A good djinn often takes the form of a lovely woman , while a bad one appears as a monster with the head of a hyena and hind-quarters of a wolf . |