Example sentences of "she [vb past] it [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
2 | She swallowed it in one gulp and started to cough . |
3 | She put it to one side , and opened the folder of photographs . |
4 | She gave a tiny giggle as a little dollop of cream adhered to the tip of her nose ; she removed it with one finger , licked the pinky , then wiped her nose with her napkin , glancing round the restaurant through the confusing topography of slats and uprights of the seats and screens , apparently worried that this minor lapse in hand-mouth coordination was being critically observed by any of the surrounding middle-class matrons , perhaps with a view to passing on the scandalous morsel to their opposite numbers in Gallanach and having mother black-balled from the local bridge club . |
5 | She drank it at one gulp . |
6 | She held it with one hand while the other went to her throat , as Nellie 's face appeared at the door . |
7 | The wind was behind her now , blowing her hair forward , so that she could not see properly unless she pushed it to one side . |
8 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |