Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stress tends to move , or strain , the fibres , crystals , granules or molecules and cause them to slide over one another into a deformation of the material . |
| 2 | Oh dear , do n't tell me to go to one of those dreary little do-gooding tea groups . |
| 3 | mainly in those areas which concern women ; it is impossible for them to disappear from one day to the next . |
| 4 | Without taking hold of me , she forced me to stand in one spot of my own will , while she whipped me on all sides . |
| 5 | You have to reinforce all the time the need for them to listen to one another , to show interest in what each other has to say , to respect one another 's views … |
| 6 | No you have we ask you to concentrate on one . |
| 7 | ‘ We would not ask you to appear in one of our modest productions , but would you perhaps come and give us some advice ? ’ |
| 8 | Of course , in these difficult circumstances you seek to keep order , but I ask you to reflect on one problem and to see what you can do about it . |
| 9 | So one good reason not to support Norwich is the hefty £52 they charge for you to look like one of their players . |
| 10 | So we are urging you to vote against one five eight and accept one six six with the qualification outlined . |
| 11 | Judge Peter Greenwood remanded Gillespie in custody for medical reports , but told him , ‘ I do not want you to think for one moment that you are not facing a custodial sentence . ’ |
| 12 | Tickets are valid all day enabling you to alight at one attraction before re-boarding a later bus and heading to another . |
| 13 | What took place around the time of the lunar eclipse on August 6th must have made you wonder what possessed you to enter into one particular agreement . |
| 14 | Before he reached them Paul and Joseph had hoisted the two boys , aged eleven and thirteen , onto their shoulders and were encouraging them to joust at one another with chopsticks from the table . |
| 15 | Then he was reaching for his own glass and inviting her to sit in one of the wicker armchairs overlooking the bay while he seated himself in the chair beside her . |
| 16 | He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life ; instantly , in less than the time it took her to walk from one side of the room to the other , he knew he loved her . |
| 17 | Algy said , sitting on a low tapestry footstool by her mother 's chair and putting her forefinger on Lady Grubb 's big garnet ring as if she were pressing a doorbell , staring up at the implacable old head and thinking of nothing but of how to get her to look at one of the two people in the room . |
| 18 | I urge him to look at one current study which concerns the possibility of moving the sea systems control first to temporary accommodation and then , in 1995-96 , to permanent accommodation . |
| 19 | It also instructed him to conclude within one month interim agreements with each of the republics to ensure " stabilization of the socio-economic situation " , and instructed Supreme Soviet Chairman Anatoly Lukyanov to draft temporary agreements with the republican legislatures on overcoming the " war of laws " , pending signature of the new Union Treaty . |
| 20 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 21 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 22 | As he turned away from her to head towards one of the tow-lifts , Shannon smiled a little sadly , not really sure whether she 'd won or lost that particular skirmish . |
| 23 | At the civilization 's zenith , the Minoan towns gathered together craft workers with widely varying skills and enabled them to learn from one another . |
| 24 | The ticket hall had one of those systems where you take a number from a machine by the door and wait for it to appear above one of the ticket windows . |
| 25 | An auto-minute button is handy — just press it to cook for one minute on high ( 100 per cent ) . |
| 26 | In the following conversational fragment , we shall say , for example , that speaker A uses the expressions my uncle and he to refer to one individual and my mother 's sister and she to refer to another . |
| 27 | Can you suggest how I might persuade it to stay in one place ? |
| 28 | It may be possible to encourage it to stay in one area by fitting a spotlight of the mercury vapour variety . |
| 29 | Tehran radio announced on 31 December that ‘ The Iranian navy has seized a Danish ship in the Gulf of Oman which was carrying explosives destined for the ruling regime in Iraq and forced it to dock at one of the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran . ’ |
| 30 | It is difficult for it to distinguish between one sort of pain and another , when trying to work out what is going wrong . |