Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in one " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Indochina , France became embroiled in one of the most complex of the post-war colonial conflicts , but it took time to accept that the days of European colonial rule were numbered . |
| 2 | But her character became embroiled in one of the show 's least likely relationships — which kept viewers hooked and earned her an extended contract . |
| 3 | How much would one swallow eat in one hour then ? |
| 4 | Simply nervous trainers tend to stand in one spot , feeted feet rooted like a tree to the ground . |
| 5 | Its author , a historian who comes from former Yugoslavia but now lives in Britain , has gathered in one volume her writings published between 1981 and the end of 1991 . |
| 6 | The reader is urged to continue reading and so we find that Dickens has succeeded in one of the most difficult aspects of a novel — providing an exciting opening for it . |
| 7 | She nodded grave acknowledgement of all my instructions , then disappeared below for five minutes , eventually returning swathed in one of the vast , padded and multi-layered foul-weather coats , and carrying a mug of coffee . |
| 8 | So it seems to me that what Williamson has shown in one particular case is clear evidence of punctuation , but no reasons at all that I can see for supposing that the mechanism of change was any other which Darwin described over a hundred years ago . |
| 9 | The new Apsley Mills store has opened in one of the biggest ever JS developments covering 16 acres on the outskirts of Hemel Hempstead . |
| 10 | Today 's athlete has to specialise in one discipline in one sport in order to achieve success at the highest level . |
| 11 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
| 12 | The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow . |
| 13 | On the other hand , one knows of homosexual relationships in which transsexuality has figured in one partner which have , apparently , been strengthened by a " sex-change " operation ( so-called ) for that partner . |
| 14 | Sometimes , the legal title can be lengthy , and where land has remained in one family for many years , as is often the case with agricultural land , the chain of title can be complex . |
| 15 | After a pause Penelope said , ‘ I hear you 've just come to live in one of those little houses in St Basil 's Terrace they look so pretty . ’ |
| 16 | We want to settle in one school for a good period of time , because we have discovered how important are relationships , with both colleagues and classes , that have been built up and stood the test of time . |
| 17 | Fortunately there is a surprising repetitiveness about human nature : a good deal that has worked in one field is quite likely to work in another field . |
| 18 | The transfer of ownership to the co-operative in 1988 has resulted in one of the most conspicuous restorations within what is flexibly called the Old Town of Edinburgh . |
| 19 | Like many conglomerates before them , South African giants , such as Anglo American , Rembrandt and Anglovaal , want to stay in one piece . |
| 20 | Perhaps the best way of illustrating just how this operates in practice and how far-reaching its effects can be in terms of building up the involvement of an entire school community in a philosophy and policy for the future is to show what has happened in one Lincolnshire school . |
| 21 | The Islamic Republic has changed in one fundamental respect since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini two years ago . |
| 22 | Oi , imagine living in one of those houses there you 'd be woken up all night by ambulances sw blaring away ! |
| 23 | Sometimes it poured down in such thick sheets of water that earth and sky seemed merged in one grey wetness … |
| 24 | Well , oh gosh , the team seemed to play in one way like , nine man rugby scrum , scrum and scrum half and that 's about it is n't it , probably was how we planned it . |
| 25 | I could n't possibly feel isolated in one of them — especially if someone came to see me , ’ she 'd added archly . |
| 26 | Everything seemed to point in one direction , but he was far from happy . |
| 27 | It was a celebration of all that is ugly and pointless about pop culture ; flaccid , unimaginative , shallow , a lifestyle celebration for people without a lifestyle , a mundane parade of talentless cretins performing their laughable music for the amusement of the most appalling heap of detritus I 've ever seen assembled in one place . |
| 28 | The depth of colour you can expect to achieve in one week will depend on how dark your skin is naturally . |
| 29 | Botulism tends to remain in one location , so it 's not a threat to Slimbridge . |
| 30 | just happened to go in one day for some meat and I got me bacon there for Christmas , that 's what I went in for were n't it ? |