Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] one " in BNC.
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1 | The boy led them up one of the dark streets to a place where the houses were tall and thin and so closely packed together that door followed immediately upon door . |
2 | She got them out one of everything and showed them all the different fish . |
3 | Another owner discovered that if he put a line of coins on his sideboard his cat would knock them down one by one . |
4 | ‘ I 'll slice strips of y'black skin and peel them back one by one , like a damned banana . ’ |
5 | In the first few months when I came out of the Navy I 'd tried my hand at a couple of things , and then my mother phoned me up one day and said there 's this job going at Drogo . |
6 | Ray was knocking them down one by one , unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down . |
7 | I shall catch him out one day . |
8 | Someone beat him up one night . |
9 | The chief of the Near East Division had sat him down one day to try to teach him about Iran , but he doubted it had gone in . |
10 | Well any suggestion if you 'd like to write it down one third take away a quarter . |
11 | Eddie found it out one time . |
12 | Work with the cable behind you and place it over one shoulder to keep it well away from the blades . |
13 | We put them up one minute and the next minute they 're gone . ’ |
14 | If you have heavy equipment to transport , do n't just sling it over one shoulder ; try to equalize the load . |
15 | On reaching the box , he would take off his helmet and put it over one arm , while his tuck-box was held under the other . |
16 | put it up one more notch with |
17 | well I mean I 'm only trying to get you to pick to pick it up one wee thing from every time I said , do have a chat with you , that 's what we always say , I 'm not expecting you to pick up anything else I 've said to you tonight cos I 'm only talking to you in general terms , but if you pick up one wee thing , right , story close |
18 | Take all the ingredients of Crufts , trim off the fat , hold it over one day in a London venue , reduce the stuffiness and pour the money raised into deserving dog charities . |
19 | The weekend before that they only allowed me out one day overnight |
20 | That 's alright , I 'll go and stick it out one night outside the window . |
21 | Chuck , read 'em out one by one . ’ |
22 | And to add to all the infamous circumstances which concur to plague a traveller , I must not forget the eternally meeting with chalk-waggons ; themselves frequently stuck fast , till a collection of them are in the same situation , and twenty or thirty horses may be tacked to each , to draw them out one by one . |
23 | She had a daughter , Rosemary Worty , who looked up to me because I locked her up one night . |
24 | He followed her down one quiet suburban street after another till they approached the busy main road . |
25 | So Trish takes him out one day lost the ball ! |
26 | It it does seem to me that the Parish Council are of course an an elected body , who will if they have views on this subject no doubt have formal minutes which will set it out one way or the other . |
27 | ‘ You 're gon na burn yourself out one of these days , Perry , ’ says Crilly . |
28 | I 've been grateful for Jessie having my key because er I 've locked myself out one or two |
29 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
30 | ‘ Even my mum called me up one day and congratulated me ! |