Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It could be that er he wishes to distract attention between the interesting arguments going on about one man one vote which I 'm pleased to hear that Mr has won .
2 Life has arisen on about one planet per galaxy ( in our galaxy , Earth is the lucky planet ) .
3 There was an army display on for one day only , Mrs Blakey had said at breakfast : the car-park behind the fish-packing station had been taken over for it .
4 I put the central heating on for one hour before the kids go to bed and one hour before they get up .
5 He came on for one match at least .
6 They are all filter-feeders , drawing water in through one opening , passing it through a bag with slits in its wall , and then discharging it back into the sea through the other tube .
7 Erm I most of the tapes that I 've had in the past have been recorded mono , erm and I 've needed a little doohickey to turn the erm output into mono as well cos it 's awfully off-putting spending seven and a half hours with the stuff coming in through one ear only .
8 For the most part , they are filter-feeders , lying with valves agape , sucking water in through one end of the mantle cavity and squirting it out through a tubular siphon at the other .
9 She has put she 's put herself down for one day at the end of her accounts to learn about accountancy and as Ian pointed out , it 's it 's it 's not a lot .
10 She would sit down for one minute and then she would go and warm herself beside Tom .
11 And David Lee , spokesman for the Football Supporters ' Association said : ‘ We have asked the PFA to support the protest by asking their members to sit down for one minute on Saturday . ’
12 Wrap the bandage around the injured limb , then spiral it up or down for one turn .
13 Got to put down for one thing is it ?
14 There are clearly — even just for music — a variety of options , and the school must eventually come down for one pattern of timing rather than another .
15 Yeah , but is n't that going to be incorporated in as one package ?
16 So you can get the three in there , and bung them in as one package you get them while they got them voucher things on offer .
17 To have it in er Daily Post , The Post is the morning one The Echo 's the evening to have it in for one day in The Post and The Echo , how much ?
18 The controller mistakenly put it in for one hour ( we had n't crossed our seven as they do in French ) , which caused the authorities to send out a search-and-rescue helicopter for us .
19 Cos we only go in for one drink to cel , celebrate Penny 's birthday with her .
20 He 's , he 's already come in for one form put it , he 's obviously filled one form in , he came up and he said can I have an application form for that job in the window , so I gave him one and he went , oh well I 've just filled one in .
21 They had some of them chickens in for one pound thirty odd , you know when it 's got sign up on video ?
22 ‘ He is in for one hell of a battle and we will take him all the way to court if we have to . ’
23 It was all gone in about one minute fifty seconds .
24 There 's a chance that he might have a moderately common anatomical abnormality of the penis ( present in about one man in 200 ) which makes it difficult to avoid peeing on the floor .
25 Nor are the blight years which affected potato crops in about one year in three , in the not so distant past .
26 Once the concentration of calcium returns to its resting level , the inactive R H state converts back to the sensitive R L state in about one second , thus setting the stage for another spike .
27 A BASIC program running on a microcomputer can generate a single stream pattern in about one second .
28 I 've seen her in about one programme in the last five years
29 The big traders were so supine , they just caved in after one letter . ’
30 I have known people to hold a rabbit down with one foot and then , after picking the ferret up in the normal way with their other hand , squeeze the ferret 's foot .
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