Example sentences of "[adv prt] one [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they walked along one of the stone-flagged paths and came to the gate in the flint wall they saw a neat pile of mowings waiting , apparently , to be composted . |
| 2 | If one plucks a piece from one of these plants it will almost certainly break along one of the numerous joints that divide the whole plant into segments , right to the tips of the branchlets . |
| 3 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 4 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 5 | In July 1947 , while Rank was in America negotiating with the five major companies , the British government responded to its own problem , a serious dollar shortage , by trying to slow down one of the major outflows and imposing a 75 per cent levy on remittable income from foreign films . |
| 6 | The Luggage came ambling down one of the other passages that radiated from the room . |
| 7 | Granny Smith , a neighbour of Mrs Dyer in Reading , swore that a brick found holding down one of the tiny cadavers was the same one that Mrs Dyer used to keep her flat irons on . |
| 8 | The entrance to her own flat was down one of the narrow corridors that led off from the rectangular landing , and as she stepped towards it she noticed with sudden uneasiness that one of the wall lights halfway down the corridor had gone , plunging the passageway into semi-darkness . |
| 9 | Tennyson turning down one of the countless invitations to tea with which he was plagued is one thing . |
| 10 | Iraq and the Mujahideen claim separately to have shot down one of the Iranian aircraft . |
| 11 | Anti-aircraft artillery shot down one of the Iranian aircraft and captured two crewmen . |
| 12 | After many years of male dominance in the dance music industry , you have finally helped to break down one of the biggest barriers and prejudices . |
| 13 | By the time he had staggered into the yard he could hardly stand up , hitting the ancient , mossy mounting block and tripping over one of the green tubs filled with white geraniums , as Little Chef came bounding out to lick him on the nose . |
| 14 | William was in one of his father 's two dwellings on High Street , while Thomas had taken over one of the original Fountain Lane/Cowards Batch houses built by his forefather William a hundred years before . |
| 15 | The temple of the White Sikhs has moved on , there are many more South Asians than a decade ago , Egyptians have taken over one of the fast-food diners . |
| 16 | On the second day , as we set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout , a sudden squall made us pleased at our foresight in bringing our Sprayway Torridon jackets along . |
| 17 | We set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout . |
| 18 | On the second day , as we set off to walk over one of the high gritstone moors towards Kinder Scout , a sudden squall made us pleased at our foresight in bringing our Sprayway Torridon jackets along . |
| 19 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 20 | Four birds died in the knowledge that they had pulled off one of the best saves ever seen at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 21 | Thus Falkenhayn through his pusillanimity , his passion for half-measures and his obsession with the ‘ bleeding white ’ experiment , on February 25th-26th lost the opportunity of bringing off one of the greatest triumphs of the war . |
| 22 | The arrival of Christianity in Birka sparked off one of the sternest tussles between Christianity and paganism anywhere in this period . |
| 23 | He waited while I tore off one of the orange-coloured tickets , then another one . |
| 24 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 25 | The conference sparked off one of the liveliest debates ever witnessed at a conference on architectural history , and highlighted the need to reassess this period as it slips into history and , therefore , our heritage . |
| 26 | Ilona Roth writes : ‘ I ‘ faxed ’ off one of the final chapters [ of her book Introduction to Psychology ] on the morning of the day on which my third child , Raphael , was born ! ’ |
| 27 | The boy led them up one of the dark streets to a place where the houses were tall and thin and so closely packed together that door followed immediately upon door . |
| 28 | In pursuing the campaign for family allowances ( initially intended to provide the mother with a wage as well as allowances for children ) , mainstream feminists of the inter-war years were picking up one of the major demands of labour women 's groups prior to World War I and consciously taking on board social issues of importance to working class women . |
| 29 | He had also , as soon as the ‘ No Smoking ’ sign was illuminated , lit up one of the strong cigarettes he used . |
| 30 | The photograph , taken in the People 's Palace in Glasgow , shows Jimmy Saville chatting up one of the disabled athletes with Alistair in the background — counting the money ? |