Example sentences of "[verb] on [pers pn] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1798 he exhibited No. 447 , ‘ Derwent Water from Castle Rigg ’ , and in 1801 , No. 649 , ‘ View from Kirby Lonsdale Churchyard Westmorland ’ , but this appears to be the last entry , probably because once he had moved to Ambleside he concentrated on his one man shows in the area . |
| 2 | Finally , infuriated by her own weakness where Adam was concerned , she had turned on him one evening in the club , shaking his hand from her hair as though scorched by his touch . |
| 3 | He knew exactly what he wanted and so I relied on him one hundred per cent . |
| 4 | After her small bedroom at home , where beloved old ornaments belonging once to her mother jostled for space with a basket of ironing she had n't yet had time for , and nursing textbooks that would n't fit on her one small bookshelf , or her room at the nurses ' home , where exotic travel posters — gleaned from a travel agent next to her father 's hardware shop — could n't disguise the institutional plainness of the furnishings , this room seemed palatial . |
| 5 | I knew that some of his friends were into drugs , but I did n't know Ryan was until he collapsed on me one day . |
| 6 | She 'd call on them one day , he was confident of that . |
| 7 | What would happen if I loved him more than he loved me , and if he were to cheat on me one day ? |
| 8 | Who was this monstrous man who had just inflicted on her one of the most unpleasant encounters in her entire life ? |
| 9 | Dad was under his car working on it one Sunday morning when the police drove by and handed him a ‘ producer ’ , which meant that he had to go to the police station with all his driving documents . |