Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were the kind of homosexuals who felt sexually inhibited with partners from their own educational background and class and who rarely found in one and the same person both lover and friend . |
| 2 | Thus , for example , the Reagan administration 's 1982 budget cuts alone led to one million people becoming unemployed in both private and public sectors . |
| 3 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 4 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 5 | This weapon was not as significant as it seemed : a two-thirds majority was needed for the vote to succeed ; the EC budget , despite the costs of the CAP , only amounted to one per cent of the Community 's GDP ; and , if the budget was rejected , the Commission would still have the right to spend money on a month-by-month basis . |
| 6 | What lessons , anything arithmetic , mental arithmetic , dictation which I was bad at , my school report was about fair , fair , fair , poor , poor , poor , that 's what mine was , I only got about one excellent . |
| 7 | Then it suddenly occurred to one of the party that these must be the first set of revolving doors Hannah had ever encountered , so he leaned forward and set them moving . |
| 8 | I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 9 | But the pastor only came for one service every two weeks even then , in the war . ’ |
| 10 | This was n't a unit at all , only seemed like one , and Alice sat inwardly separated , thinking that Pat probably felt the same . |
| 11 | He gingerly sawed through one of the objects . |
| 12 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 13 | Mattlock 's business judgement was vindicated by Cotton Town 's sales : it only went into one printing . |
| 14 | A lot of chemical reactions are actually reversible , but the tend to be mainly going very much in one direction , so we just say we just write it as though it only went in one direction . |
| 15 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 16 | For a moment , they merely stared at one another ; then Ross began to walk away . |
| 17 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 18 | And how had my chestnut avenue suddenly dwindled to one or two trees ? |
| 19 | It was now 9.00am , they only had about one hour 's fuel left , enough for 180 miles at the most . |
| 20 | A male who did somehow manage to copulate with hundreds of females would be at an enormous advantage compared with a male who only copulated with one or two females . |
| 21 | Repelled yet attracted by the ferocious masks , she finally tried on one or two , but there was no mirror where she could see herself , although she felt peculiarly feline or vulpine according to the mask she wore . |
| 22 | He just seemed like one of us — ’ |
| 23 | Yes , just came through one . |
| 24 | But my screwed up face of determination soon turned to one of exhilaration and delight as I paraded around with people oohhing and aahhing at me . |
| 25 | In a pagan world which was full of gods and where men and women encountered the divine at every turn , there was no need for the mystical disciplines to help people to cultivate a sense of presence and unity : they already felt at one with the world . |
| 26 | I had sweat all over my face and as soon as they opened the door I just went for one of them . |
| 27 | He then laid the tape across the diameter so that it exactly stretched from one side of the circle to the other . |
| 28 | His point was that a war in peacetime would have to be fought against unemployment , as it persistently remained above one million in the 1920s , and rose towards three million during the severe cyclical depression between 1929 and 1932 . |
| 29 | ‘ Her dreadful friends started to take advantage of her , persuading her to spend her savings on them , and finally stole from one of her flatmates . |
| 30 | Gloria put on her stockings , one coupon each , two for the pair and always kept for best , straightened the seams up the back , Vase lined her eyebrows , and put on her suede peeptoe shoes and her little black hat with the veil which usually lived in one of the paper carrier bags on the top of the shelf . |