Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] one [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | O ’ course I do n't want to exaggerate : now and then you 'd get sparks out of him — he 'd tell a good story , he 'd chat up one o' the lasses , or go to t'pub wi' the lads . |
| 2 | At the moment it was the traditional tale of going up to Jackson 's at 10 in the morning after an all-night session at Dobell 's — wine we drank in those days , Poppet , wine that was wine not this filthy MUCK — and demanding double portions of oysters all round and when it came to pay no one had a penny , so Dobell , who even then still had the charm of a boy of twenty , and a slim waist to go with it , said he would bring in one of the engravings from his collection , and Gaston , who always recognised a gentleman — not like the CLODS who run hostelries nowadays — with tears in his eyes said it was an honour , an honour to serve Mr Dobell and his friends . |
| 3 | In the semi-final , in which I ran second , Cameron Sharp was in the lane adjacent to Chidi , who has a side-to-side action with his running which many felt made Cameron run along one of the lines so that he was disqualified . |
| 4 | He would ring up one of the women in his little black book and pay for his excesses . |
| 5 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 6 | The source coordinates of the stream are found by generating two random whole numbers in the range 1–30 and the direction of movement from one cell to the next is found by generating another random number which can take on one of the values 1 , 2 , 3 or 4 . |
| 7 | Kharin , unable to speak a word of English , saw Hitchcock pull off one of the saves of the season as he watched his first match following a £400,000 transfer from CSKA Moscow . |