Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The source of infection may be a person who is incubating an infectious disease , or actually suffering from an infection , or recovering from one , or a carrier who is personally not affected but is harbouring pathogens which can infect others . |
| 2 | This is most evident in cases of indecent assault , which may be committed by the least unwanted touching or stroking of one person 's body by another . |
| 3 | This is done by applying pressure to the mastfoot by pulling or pushing with one hand on the mast . |
| 4 | Not just that the money came from insider dealing , but the weapons were n't coming from any official supplier or going to one of the usual customers . ’ |
| 5 | But he appeared quite anxious throughout the interview , often leaving the room or calling to one of his ubiquitous assistants when the interview started getting , as he put it , ‘ too hard ’ ( ‘ Uh , Susanna , who would some of my female heroes be ? ’ ) . |
| 6 | Or strolling through one of Hamilton 's many museums . |
| 7 | Regular summer visitors return from far afield year after year , camping in the bay next door or staying in one or the two small hotels . |
| 8 | If it is traced on paper , transfer the outline to the cake or icing in one of two ways . |
| 9 | If I 'm down or arguing with one of the family , because I 've been ratty through not being well , then Pat the physiotherapist , I have a talk with her and she talks to me and it helps me to talk to somebody else . |
| 10 | More than anything Mungo suddenly wanted to get out of the forest ; to be in his room , or talking to one of the family , or anywhere . |
| 11 | Divination or talking to one of the Ghosts of Kadar-Gravning ( if the adventurers can convince one that they are friendly ! ) might lead to a |
| 12 | There are no exact equivalents for li and ch'i among our concepts , and there is no way of approaching them except by breaking out from or awakening to one analogy after another . |
| 13 | The whole route was lined by men of the Cent-Gardes , whose immobility was such that according to one guest ‘ they might have been statues ’ , but she felt unable to study them in detail , so terrified was she of slipping on the highly polished parquet that her whole mind was fixed on arriving safely at the dining room . |
| 14 | Demographers look on surveys of family intentions with mixed feelings , although according to one analysis 80 per cent of the women married in 1959 achieved their intended family size ( Barrett and Brass 1974 ) . |
| 15 | In one important sense , however , it is questionable whether they yet constituted a distinct class of medreses in this period , namely that teaching in one or another of them appears not to have been a prerequisite for the holding of the highest mevleviyets . |
| 16 | Even more pointedly , they argue that dealing with one client may increase the burden on others in equal need . |
| 17 | I had fondly imagined that sitting astride one of these slow , sure-footed and allegedly stubborn beasts would be a doddle — which it was when actually in the saddle . |
| 18 | The government , recognizing this problem , tries to gain an overall impression of the growth of money supply rather than concentrating on one measure alone . |
| 19 | During one date in Malibu they sat holding hands and gazing into one another 's eyes , according to witnesses . |
| 20 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 21 | Young men formed neighbourhood jazz bands , creating uniforms out of crêpe paper and competing against one another for modest prices . |
| 22 | He was removing his thick leather belt with one hand and struggling with one of her buttons . |
| 23 | The way Albert was staring at her , dry and disbelieving with one eyebrow raised , was so maddening ! |
| 24 | Beyond this point the rows of atoms will subside into repose in the next valley and shearing through one atomic spacing will have occurred . |
| 25 | A gangpath ran from Corridor 11 , just by number 23 , crossing Corridor 12 high up , and twisting onto one of the stairs . |
| 26 | Imagine three spiral staircases starting from the ground 120 degrees apart in plan view , and twisting round one another ! |
| 27 | He rapidly became one of the prince 's closest friends , accompanying him on his crusade of 1270–2 and appearing as one of his executors in the will which Edward made at Acre in June 1272 . |
| 28 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 29 | Libby had been heaving and pushing at one of the logs , covered with rotten bark that peeled off , revealing orange insect eggs and small white channels like blood vessels covering the surface . |
| 30 | In his biography of John Wesley the by then very conservative Robert Southey warned : Perhaps the manner in which Methodism has familiarized the lower classes to the work of combining in associations , making rules for their own governance , raising funds , and communicating from one part of the kingdom to another , may be reckoned among the incidental evils which have arisen from it . |