Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sit in on one of my lessons . |
| 2 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 3 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 4 | Resentfully Kate took it from him before moving to sit down on one of the sofas . |
| 5 | Rincewind got down on one knee , the better to arrange the picture , and pressed the enchanted lever . |
| 6 | It swooped down on one of the dogs and was standing on its chest with its beak at her throat . |
| 7 | Consultants are bound to fall down on one of these . ’ |
| 8 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 9 | This central area of the town — Hillgate , Millgate , the Underbanks , all names attested in the 15th century — does however retain both the medieval street plan and something of a medieval atmosphere , because of the narrow , twisting , hilly streets and the buildings crowding in on one another . |
| 10 | Why he decided to come down on one player 's side against another is beyond comprehension . |
| 11 | job to get out the house for a little while and she usually gets granny up , cos granny have to come down on one of those chairs . |
| 12 | It is no longer to come down on one side or other of the fence as the entire poem was so clearly designed to do , but to say following the ways of God will mean this . |
| 13 | One of the few senior aides in the confidence of the couple admits it is unlikely Tim bent down on one knee to pop the question . |
| 14 | I understand that other roads built up on one side only have been granted 30 mph speed limits . |
| 15 | I assume that Crilly has been picked up on one of his many ‘ wanted ’ charges and that the police are calling to confirm the address he has given . |
| 16 | So I 've picked up on one . |
| 17 | And in a vain attempt to make Williams jump he said , ‘ I rather think we may have to tighten up on one or two things round here . ’ |
| 18 | There was not a great deal to see , as he was curled up on one side with his thumb jammed in his mouth , and four chubby fingers obscured that part of his face not pressed deep into the bolster . |
| 19 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 20 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big -ENG roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 21 | Yes I should like to come back on one or two of those points . |
| 22 | Hence , chemical studies are confidently carried out on one or at most a very few instances of the materials that chemists are analysing and synthesizing . |
| 23 | All processing was carried out on one definition at a time . |
| 24 | ‘ This was a dastardly act carried out on one of the busiest days of the week . |
| 25 | And their continued existence , damn them , means this writer can no longer fall back on one of his favourite lines . |
| 26 | trying to get through the , he says oh them people have left here , now you 'll have to , and he gives us another two numbers and that , I got through on one of the numbers and then er , I asked I says oh I says I did n't get me photograph and me plastic wallet , he says well you do n't really need them you know when you retired , but I says how can you go on the train , you sure of that ? |
| 27 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 28 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 29 | My son , he wrote , moving on to a new page , my son , who is a keen footballer and a passionate supporter of our local team , Brighton and Hove Albion ( the Seagulls ) , was surprised the other day when , looking in on one of the team 's training sessions in the sports pavilion of the University of Sussex , he . |
| 30 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |