Example sentences of "[coord] in one [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next few days he was never out of the press and in one emotional moment he confided to a journalist that he felt betrayed by Scotland . |
| 2 | Simon McBurney brings a fidgety , sweaty intensity to the role of the troubled king , and in one superb scene he is discovered standing on top of a wardrobe , gazing miserably down on the happy innocents beneath him as his heart is gnawed by destructive jealousy . |
| 3 | His performance was pitiful , five goals flew past him from a bewildering array of angles , and in one pathetic ritual he ended up wrapped round the goal-post , in a knot of utter hopelessness . |
| 4 | Her face grimly determined , she lunged , and in one swift movement he tossed his shield aside , grabbed the pitchfork , and pulled . |
| 5 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 6 | She tried to twist free , but in one deft movement he hooked his arm beneath her knees and , completely oblivious to her struggles , threw her on to the bed . |