Example sentences of "[pron] on one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By eight-thirty , after putting the army to rights , and warming ourselves on one cup of tea after another , we were too cold to stay up . |
| 2 | I think it said five six seven eight nine ten or summat on one side and then it said six seven eight nine on other side . |
| 3 | As the final chimes faded , Daniel raised himself on one elbow and started to outline with his finger the pattern of reflected leaves that decorated Elisabeth 's body . |
| 4 | He raised himself on one elbow and gingerly felt around his feet . |
| 5 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 6 | Supporting himself on one elbow he leaned over her . |
| 7 | Huy raised himself on one elbow . |
| 8 | Propping himself on one elbow , he leaned over her . |
| 9 | To demonstrate the power of the animals , a fully grown man stands on the back of the 6-inch-long shrew , balancing himself on one leg . |
| 10 | Note : To find the boy 's weight , w , he had to be by himself on one side of the see-saw or equation . |
| 11 | There is a poignant irony in the way clothing , which on one level served to hide Kahlo 's broken body , falls or is lifted by the model to reveal a luxuriantly perfect physique ( Fig. 4 ) . |
| 12 | But where the newspaper story has significance is in describing , and indeed representing , the limitations of a present position , which on one level is based upon an explicitly favourable stance , yet which contains its own implicit limitations . |
| 13 | Mary Kingsley was also an intrepid traveller , but she stuck to the conventional dress of a Victorian lady , which on one occasion saved her life . |
| 14 | If A had an honest doubt whether there was a contract at all between B and C it has been held that this would provide a good defence but if the doubt is whether A 's rights or C's under two inconsistent agreements should prevail and A chooses to adopt a course which on one view of the law will undoubtedly interfere with C 's rights , it has been said that he must at least show that he was advised and honestly believed that he was entitled to take that course . |
| 15 | Michael Hurley who on one occasion addressed the presbyterian general assembly in Belfast against both the bishop 's private wishes and Ian Paisley 's open and defiant demonstrations . |
| 16 | The Pringle lairds who built and occupied the tower had frequently been beset by reivers from Tynedale and Redesdale , who on one occasion took away with them 600 cattle , 100 horses and 100 prisoners . |
| 17 | What I think we 'll do to start off with is to just put you on one inhaler and see how well you respond and if you only need it ev every now and again we do n't need to do anything else . |
| 18 | I 'd rather just have you on one preparation and then we see what happens . |
| 19 | They would do you on one charge but they always laid three against you and you would have no escape . |
| 20 | Furthermore , any movement basing itself on one man , with an ideology of systematic hostility to parliamentary politics and of vocal nationalism , was bound to be classified on the extreme right . |
| 21 | unc Note : To find the value of the letter we again had to get it by itself on one side of the equation . |
| 22 | Tektronix says it designed the XP10T series of five terminals for high bandwidth and very high reliability — this has been achieved by placing everything on one board including the graphics , X , the local network logic and the local network cable connectors : there are no edge connectors . |
| 23 | At the same time they wanted " everything on one screen " meaning location information ( in LlBERTAS neither brief nor full records include location or a class number ) . |
| 24 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
| 25 | I still think that Lukic is the best one on one keeper there is . |
| 26 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 27 | The parent is captured and its offspring are given the same marks ; one nick on each side of the upper beak for the Vintners ; one on one side for the Dyers ; none at all for the Royal cygnets . |
| 28 | No , there 's a Co-op one on one side , one above Co-op and then on other side erm is it called Jean 's , or something like that ? |
| 29 | Rose raised herself on one elbow and addressed the darkness in a fierce whisper . |
| 30 | Lee lifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow , looking up like a child , expectant . |