Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at one " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this paper , I want to look at one kind of way in which some feminists have tried to conceptualise what it is for a woman to be ‘ autonomous ’ , and at the implications this has for ways of thinking about the human self . |
| 2 | Inevitably , this reputation as a man of letters militated against his artistic reputation ; in England , you are expected to excel at one thing only , if that . |
| 3 | They had sat there hating one another , quarrelling in bitter voices , not wanting to look at one another . |
| 4 | All AE 's immediately turned to stare at one of their number a poker-faced young man , who described any client who would n't buy from him as a " cunt " even scribbling comments to that effect on the client record cards . |
| 5 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 6 | Here we are concerned with a form of corporate provision that can also be used to provide at one and the same time a safety net and a reward for initiative . |
| 7 | Er you 're going to look at one of our our gems which is leisure services . |
| 8 | In this last programme in our short series on the boundaries of science , we 're going to look at one aspect of that most baffling and intriguing subject , the origin of life . |
| 9 | If the subject prefers to look at one stimulus rather than another we can assume that he has detected a difference between them . |
| 10 | Does ‘ read ’ mean ‘ studied assiduously from cover to cover ’ or ‘ borrowed to look at one or two chapters ’ or ‘ glanced at in a library ’ ? |
| 11 | If you 've actually be wangling system on your way up , which is what most of us seem to do at one time or another . |
| 12 | As it claimed to be the functioning government of Vietnam it was hardly surprising that US officers , particularly OSS , maintained fairly close contact with the Vietminh and perhaps there was a genuine basis for the American — Vietnamese Friendship Association ; and when the senior US officer , General Gallagher , was persuaded to sing at one of their meetings and , apparently , broadcast on Vietminh radio , this too was in itself a comparatively innocent exercise . |
| 13 | The House was called to order at one stage by the Speaker , Mr Bernard Weatherill , after Mr Clarke accused crews of waiting at stations ‘ pretending ’ to be ready for work . |
| 14 | The House was called to order at one stage by the Speaker , Mr Bernard Weatherhill , after Mr Clarke accused crews of waiting at stations ‘ pretending ’ to be ready for work . |
| 15 | Recognizing that he had no time to position his own gun , Howard ducked down , the enemy gun already beginning to flare at one end . |
| 16 | IF you like to feel at one with nature when you are having a tipple , you could do a lot worse than to make for the upstairs bar in the Shaftesbury Inn on Belfast 's Antrim Road . |
| 17 | Independence of this type was probably exceptional , however , and among the small towns strip buildings are usually known to lie at one end of a narrow plot or yard . |
| 18 | Its orbit takes it around the world once every 24 hours , so it appears to stay at one point in the sky . |
| 19 | If the story of Edmund 's connection with Swegen 's death does date from Cnut 's time , it is interesting , and seems to hint at one of the most resented aspects of Danish rule , that Edmund , like Ælfheah , had not only been martyred by the Danes , he had also refused to give them money . |
| 20 | The auction was set to begin at one and it was nearing that time when Cornelius finally met up once more with Tuppe . |
| 21 | Erm before we actually get down discussing this er submission can I just say that we do have another issue to talk about at er two o'clock this afternoon and therefore it means that our discussion will , on this topic , will have to terminate at one o'clock . |
| 22 | Bach wrote all his in 3/4 , though they are by no means all meant to go at one tempo . |
| 23 | Further , the body will be assumed to oscillate at one angular frequency ο . |
| 24 | It was not the intention , of course , that all of this should come to pass at one stroke , nor is it clear that it can ever wholly come to pass . |
| 25 | Aston Villa , Everton , Sheffield Wednesday , Sheffield United , West Ham and Millwall have made the first moves to look at one of the largest untapped areas of players in world football . |
| 26 | 1989 , 15 mins ; ‘ Faust IV ’ by Stan Brakhage , is a developing theme of a modern Faust as he strives to become at one with the reason of his being . |
| 27 | He threatens to destroy at one stroke the whole congregation of the people , with the exception only of Moses and his brother Aaron . |
| 28 | Here Revelstoke was in his element ; acute intelligence and charm , capacity for meticulous work , presence and eloquence , fluency in French and Spanish , and , above all , financial acumen made him a match for the wiliest of South American presidents , North American railway barons , European finance ministers , and the members of the British cabinet with all of whom he had to deal at one time or another . |
| 29 | Now we need to look at one lot of something in brackets add another lot , well let's , let's forget about the first one being in brackets , let's say we 're doing ten take away six . |
| 30 | right , now if you want to understand how to tie down , you just need to look at one or two tied in lines , and then you can , you can add , oh you can add your main lines what I 'm trying to say is , when it comes to , when it comes to , when it comes to , when it comes to selling , there 's a lot more than just what might you 've got , right , see I mean , I see for instance , you 've probably , you probably do n't , you probably do n't , you probably do n't go along right quite often right , people will buy what products can do with them , they do n't buy the products , are you with me ? |