Example sentences of "one [num ord] [noun sg] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bellybutton gave one last look at the man walking along the dock , then shoved Starkisser 's tachometers way into their red zones so that the dark blue powerboat stood on her tail and screamed out to sea as though the devil himself was on her tail . |
| 2 | Smiling foolishly , he puts the car into gear , and violently accelerates away , taking one last look at the girl , just in case she turns . |
| 3 | As she set her foot on the first one she turned involuntarily and gave one last look at the parade — and started uncomfortably at what she saw . |
| 4 | When he reached the guardroom he stopped and turned round for one last look at the parade ground . |
| 5 | He put down the radio for a moment , taking one last look at the boat as it chugged slowly up river . |
| 6 | Feeling a fiendish sense of delight at being ‘ bad ’ , she lifted the binoculars back to her eyes to have one last look at the mystery guest . |
| 7 | He looked one last time at the car , as it was winched onto the trailer . |
| 8 | I 'm going to change for dinner , then later on I might have one last bash at the brick wall . ’ |
| 9 | She took one last glance at the window above to see Maria Luisa with her palms flat against the window-pane , desperately , mutely pleading with Ruth for help with eyes so full of pain that Ruth 's nerves nearly snapped . |
| 10 | But the taxi had showed up on the dot , and she had stepped in , resolutely refusing to look back for one last glance at the house . |