Example sentences of "one [prep] the road " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the temporary substitution of a vehicle for one off the road if there is no margin ( by letter enclosing identity disc of specified vehicle ) . |
| 2 | ‘ One for the road then , Jack ? ’ |
| 3 | A similar line of reasoning — warm the skin if the body is cold — explains the idea of ‘ one for the road ’ or the ‘ stirrup cup ’ . |
| 4 | He was a long way from being an alcoholic , but he was vulnerable to heavy social drinking and was a sucker for the old Scottish adage ‘ One For The Road ’ . |
| 5 | One for the road |
| 6 | Mark my words , the day is fast approaching when the phrase ‘ lubricating the client ’ will be consigned to the same vernacular scrap-heap as ‘ one for the road ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ You mean one for the road ? ’ |
| 8 | One for the road — we road test a GRiD laptop in the US . |
| 9 | One for the Road — Living with a Notebook . |
| 10 | And one for the road , the last word in car hi-fi . |
| 11 | All police forces in the region are saying do n't have one for the road — have none for the road . |
| 12 | That 's right , well I said to Lee , you do n't half pick your blooming girl friends , he had that neurotic one up the road , did n't he ? |
| 13 | I could have got her one up the road this morning . |
| 14 | Which one up the road ? |
| 15 | The Secretary of State talked on Tuesday in terms of people moving from one unit to another , and said that it would not be a problem if a unit was closed , because people could simply go to the next one along the road . |
| 16 | Er then he , there 's only three houses in the road that he lived in , , the next one along the road came up for auction and he sold his station and moved up to that and he said he 's just bought the one at the end of the road now which is er seven hundred and fifty thousand he paid for it , a hundred and fifty thousand to have it interior decorated . |
| 17 | So it was logical that the builder 's wife would be the only one in the road without a decent kitchen to work in . |
| 18 | That one down the road are n't they ? |
| 19 | The one down the road here . |
| 20 | Likewise , among cars bought next summer , a K-registered one on the road in August will have the eventual edge over a barely older J. |
| 21 | It 's cheaper than buying one across the road . |
| 22 | Stuart liked this one across the road . |
| 23 | Is it a bigger garden than that one across the road ? |