Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on one " in BNC.
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| 31 | I I on picking up on one thing that was said |
| 32 | This section of the road is continuously built up on one side and contains ten residential access points . |
| 33 | Even her voice was different and he came up on one elbow to look into her face , seeing all the fire die out of her . |
| 34 | When Hurley got off on one of his tirades , Dany Habib , his number two , would stand in the doorway and roll his eyes , and Connie , his secretary , a typical career civil service type , would cluck around like a mother hen . |
| 35 | He built Britain 's biggest theme park , bought the world 's largest listed building and has this week been shouldering in on one of Manchester Airport 's more unusual records . |
| 36 | He ducked down on one knee and said to himself , ‘ Sasaki , gambare ! |
| 37 | He 's taken to going off on one or other of his ships — quite reasonably , because he is managing director of the shipping company . |
| 38 | Lining up on one side is the Baker Street pub in appropriately , Baker street . |
| 39 | ‘ I 'm not going up on one of those things ! ’ |
| 40 | It shows up on one of the pictures — and I think that 's the only bit of pain he got from that . ’ |
| 41 | Autoquote , regarded as a world leader in the field of accident repair software systems , is described as being so comprehensive that if one coughs in one of Heggie 's workshops it immediately shows up on one of the system 's screens with a cost attached . |
| 42 | Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive . |
| 43 | I pick up on one idea at a time , and we try each of these as a group . |
| 44 | He was still lying on her bed , his head propped up on one hand . |
| 45 | Lil , propped up on one elbow , grins at me from under a towelling turban . |
| 46 | He was propped up on one elbow , his dark hair sweat-curled , his eyes gleaming with desire , his naked chest and arms magnificent in their absolute masculinity . |
| 47 | Lying on your left side , propped up on one arm and with the left leg bent back , raise and lower the right leg while pressing down on your thigh with the ball . |
| 48 | He got up on one elbow . |
| 49 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 50 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 51 | I remember my mother dozing off on one occasion , over the miles of Salisbury Plain , and saying in a sleepy voice to Ann who had perched on her knee , ‘ Ann dear , may I have my leg back ? ’ |
| 52 | The bedside lamp snapped on and she turned to see Fernando , raised up on one elbow , gazing at her . |
| 53 | She was sitting hunched up on one of the two comfortable chairs in the cubby-hole where the staff went for their breaks . |
| 54 | Presumably , they would set out on one course of action , receive a consultants ' report which would blow them off their course , the journalists would then be summoned to Luigi 's restaurant and policy would once again be changed . |
| 55 | Rough was lucky to miss out on one of Scottish football 's most infamous scandals , when he missed the taxi that whisked five if his international team-mates to the notorious bender in Copenhagen which led them to being banned for life . |
| 56 | One review board chairman agreed completely with the inspector , one completely disagreed and in the third case the chairman merely rewrote the report in different words without coming down on one side or the other . |
| 57 | ‘ Coming up on one full revolution , Ace . |
| 58 | ‘ Oh , my psalter ! ’ she exclaimed , coming up on one elbow . |
| 59 | That night I slept on the subway , curled up on one of the seats . |
| 60 | Sometimes she sat in his room with him in the evenings when he practised , curled up on one or other of the narrow beds , with her sewing . |