Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [verb] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’
2 Only one group use it to any marked degree in navigation .
3 Only one person managed it on public transport .
4 As one observer put it after goalless draws with Castellon and Mallorca : ‘ Under Beenhakker , the little teams were slaughtered . ’
5 One prisoner put it like this : ‘ I waken up every morning with this pain .
6 The working of a material can convert kinetic energy into potential energy as an aesthetic process ; just as the energy expended in lifting a one kilogramme weight to a height of one metre invests it with one kgm of potential energy .
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