Example sentences of "one [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bosch reared one off a length to have Simmons caught at gully , and Lara proceeded with all guns blazing as if victory was but a boundary away . |
| 2 | ‘ I borrowed this one off a pal who wants it back by nightfall . |
| 3 | Eventually she rejected all the samples and chose one off a shade card , that had n't cost anything . |
| 4 | ‘ Sexss lady ? ’ hissed one through a gold tooth . |
| 5 | Your doctor may be able to recommend an osteopath or chiropractor , or you may be able to find one through a friend or in the Yellow Pages . |
| 6 | Pringle put one through a big gate via Wright 's edge . |
| 7 | The water was pumped back to the pond through two central heating circulators — one through a venturi and the other to the small header pools and back via a cascade . |
| 8 | But apart from that I mean we w I never knew any of our lot to put one through a letter box or anything like that , you know . |
| 9 | While the South Devon Railway was clearly given special help by the DVR Board in year one through an advantageous lease and loco hire charges , it now stands alone as an independent commercial undertaking , albeit operating as a non-profit making trust . |
| 10 | His brother Gavin frets him , and he has a longing for Gavin 's wife , together with a more urgent one for a teacher at the school , Alison Houston , who could be felt to lead him on a bit but does n't want to have a ‘ relationship ’ with him . |
| 11 | If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States . |
| 12 | ‘ This will mean a miserable winter for house owners but a disastrous one for a quarter of a million working people . |
| 13 | ‘ The thought of being in one for a week and unconscious for half a day would n't have appealed to me very much . |
| 14 | Up until eleven o'clock everything went pretty well , When just as you start thinking to yourself that 's the last one for a while , lo and behold another wagon turns up . |
| 15 | Before the gun battle started the Vietnamese youths issued extravagant demands , including one for a flight to Thailand so they could fight communists . |
| 16 | And the priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering ; and the priest shall make atonement for her before the Lord for her unclean discharge . |
| 17 | It had provided the money , and had earmarked it : the local Assembly could not have changed the plans to one for a new school or slaughterhouse . |
| 18 | I am particularly taken with one for a charity based in Rusper , Sussex , called ‘ Care for the Wild ’ . |
| 19 | People have been counted as spending all of the last year of their lives in residential homes if they had lived in one for a year or more . |
| 20 | Taking all types of respondents together their ratings were similar for people who had not been in a residential home at all and those who had been in one for a year or more , while those who had only spent part of the last year of their lives in a residential home were generally felt to have had a worse quality of life : for 39 per cent of them it was rated as poor compared with 27 per cent of the other two groups . |
| 21 | A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car . |
| 22 | He reached out and touched the feet , holding each one for a moment in his hand . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , between the contract date and its settlement , movements in the relative values of currencies involved might transform a profitable transaction into a loss-making one for a trader . |
| 24 | So we had tunics with just two pockets , one for a book and one for a whistle . |
| 25 | Mary took the five pound salmon from her bag , wrapped in newspaper , ‘ in which case , ’ she continued , ‘ Yanto said you could have this one for a pound , and it 's worth a least two pounds ten , as you know . |
| 26 | ‘ Swap one for a cheese and pickle ? ’ |
| 27 | Ferrets must become used to wearing a muzzle long before they are fitted with one for a day 's ferreting . |
| 28 | Now when your audience tells you a day you add one for a Thursday , two for a Friday , and three for a Saturday . |
| 29 | Once he began to recognise the key herbs to use , Chris started to experience success with all kinds of ailments and has developed several recipes , such as the one for a general tonic listed here . |
| 30 | He stood by the door and called each worker by name , shaking hands with some , inquiring about relatives of others , but thanking each one for a job well done . |