Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The starting dose was adjusted to induce one to two bowel movements per day , loose enough to ensure complete daily emptying of the lower bowel and prevent pain or stool soiling , or both . |
| 2 | By the year 2000 , the Government wants to see one in three school leavers entering a university or college . |
| 3 | A roof rack , he wants to borrow one for Sunday , cos Susan 's coming back look , anyway she asked me and I said no we 've never had one , I do n't think we ever had , I said I 'll ask Doreen , so I asked Doreen and she said yes we have , but I 'd have to ask Leslie first , so when Dee come back I said yes she has , but do n't say anything to her cos you might not get it , but she 's not getting that . |
| 4 | He noted a marked increase in exhibitions devoted to modern decorative arts : in 1995 the Art Institute of Chicago , for example , will be presenting a show on twentieth-century British silversmiths whilst the current series of design exhibitions at the Bauhaus Archive has included one on metalwork . |
| 5 | DeFreitas played a daffy stroke : he tried to pull one from Cairns which was not short enough . |
| 6 | There 's already a school for boys in Morton , and now I want to open one for girls , so I 've rented a building for it , with a small cottage for the schoolteacher . |
| 7 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 8 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 9 | He gave me the most trouble by returning more potential Pathfinders than any other CO : hut not only — aircrew he walked about Gransden with a wad of railway warrants in his pocket , and anyone who offended got one on the spot . |
| 10 | Research at Loughborough University has shown one in 7 accidents is caused by drowsy drivers . |
| 11 | A national survey has shown one in 15 schools can expect some sort of fire . |
| 12 | American , Australia , Canada , New Zealand , France , Denmark , Holland , Norway and Greece all have them — Sweden has had one for more than 200 years . |
| 13 | To perform conditional jumps , the computer has to select one from a set of two ( or more ) next micro-instruction addresses . |
| 14 | There 's one if you pick up one there I think one of those cards there has got one on the planner and one on the erm |
| 15 | Rocket has got one on his ear . |
| 16 | Left : If you want to replace a dishwasher that 's over 10 years ' old , or want to fit one into a kitchen with imperial size 500 mm wide base units , you 'll need a machine that measures 50 cm rather than the usual 60 cm wide . |
| 17 | This important subject needed a balanced up-to-date review and David Hawkridge , professor of applied educational sciences and director of the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University , has supplied one with great clarity . |
| 18 | A mask , want to put it on , want to put one on ? |
| 19 | Now we 're planning to do a , we do n't wan na do another budget , re-budget forecast until June July , we , cos it , we do n't need to do one for this bu any budget year starting July , we 're gon na work on the calendar year . |
| 20 | Many writers incorrectly put a comma only before the appositive element and forget to put one after it as well . |
| 21 | In other words , the sentence with to asserts drop as a fact and perception is invoked merely as the means which has brought one to the knowledge of this fact : perception took place ; therefore the dropping can be inferred and asserted . |
| 22 | Right okay good , very good the objections cos you tried to whizz one in there very early on but John actually overcome it quite , quite good . |
| 23 | Most items in these suites were designed to contrast one with another by varied time signatures , tempi and phrasing so that they built up to a climax which , in the early days , signalled the entrance of the king or the most important participant . |
| 24 | It can from , in situations where the employer wants to take one on the life of the employee . |
| 25 | I tried to become one with nature on the games-field , which made me unpopular with the enthusiastic cricketers . |
| 26 | Second , my mutations are all constrained to occur one at a time . |
| 27 | You may want to choose one with a reflective strip incorporated into the design . |
| 28 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 29 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 30 | I got in you know , on this guy he 's oh no , no , he said he he 'd got one at home , he said I ca n't afford blooming two ! |