Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point , under the ICE Conditions of Contract ( 5th edition ) , the engineer should carry out one of the following actions require the contractor to estimate the cost of the proposed remedial measures |
| 2 | Buckinghamshire are playing Leicestershire … just the day for a game of cup cricket … just the day for the local people to come out and see if their team could knock down one of the high and mighty … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A NEW jab available in the autumn could wipe out one of the most common forms of meningitis affecting babies in Britain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He would ring up one of the women in his little black book and pay for his excesses . |
| 7 | That would wipe out one of the central government 's most important sources of power : control over foreign-currency earnings . |
| 8 | 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 . |