Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend in Joan 's office was active in the Womens ' Loyalist Action Association and invited her to one of its meetings . |
| 2 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 3 | In 1733 , the Apothecaries erected a marble statue by Rysbrack to their most generous benefactor and placed it in one of the rooms of the orange house , but in 1748 it was moved to the centre of the garden , where a replica stands today . |
| 4 | It was as if the attacking force had drawn back their battering-ram and steadied it for one final assault . |
| 5 | The bewitchment , if any , had evaporated as soon as those black eyes had extinguished that first interested glance and substituted it for one of rampant dislike . |
| 6 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 7 | Casually it beat the fish into stillness on the branch and swallowed it in one gulp . |
| 8 | McCann 's perseverance saw him move 5-4 ahead after seven ends , but a double on the next restored Robertson 's advantage and pushed him within one of the winning line . |
| 9 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 10 | Simpson called it quantum evolution and described it as one of three evolutionary modes . |
| 11 | Vass leaned back in his chair and subjected her to one of those arrogant black looks of his . |
| 12 | He and Amy had collected large stones from the beach , looking for those with holes in them — and he had strung them on to strong cord and tied them along one side of the playpen . |
| 13 | Laughing , he plucked a laspistol from his belt and shot her through one of her blind eyes , boiling her brain . |
| 14 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 15 | She took some gravel off the top of the pill-box and threw it through one of the slits . |
| 16 | The coroner smiled at the wine , lifted the cup and downed it in one gulp . |
| 17 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 18 | He put an arm around my shoulder and steered me to one of the leather sofas which had a girl where other sofas have cushions . |
| 19 | A shift in viewpoint , not in technology , totally changed the economics of ocean shipping and turned it into one of the major growth industries of the last 20 to 30 years . |
| 20 | I was very excited by this idea and discussed it with one of my students , Ian Moss . |
| 21 | I screwed up the brown bag and flipped it behind one of the disco 's speakers . |
| 22 | Two men appeared in front of him , and he caught her wrist and jerked her to one side , raising his sword . |
| 23 | He took off the phoney glasses and tweed hat and threw them to one side . |
| 24 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |