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

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1 I declined a chocolate ; they were too large to take in in one bite and I feared to take two and risk cream and liqueur trickling down my chin .
2 Or she may be working on a rabbit and be boxed in in one direction while another ferret has backed one or more rabbits behind her .
3 He stood there , reached into the coat , pulled out the pint , drank it all down in one go and nodded to the barman .
4 It 's a spontaneous feeling ; you can put it all down in one go . ’
5 The redhead brought out some glasses and he drank the liquid down in one go .
6 Having carpet down in one corridor !
7 At the sink he filled a cup with cold water , drank it down in one gulp , refilled it and handed it to Frankie without comment .
8 ‘ Ah , I will come down in one minute , madam .
9 We took it all down in one day , helped by Steve 's mothers ' little helpers .
10 They went down in one day , unloaded the two separate loads , got round to number seven Edgeware Road the next day .
11 I used to love the letters page but now it gets a bit bogged down in one debate — make it a bit longer and keep the ‘ one-off ’ letters/comments .
12 We climbed pure alpine style , which is very fast and light , and got up and down in one piece .
13 Moving underneath them , the whale then rises , gulping them down in one leviathan mouthful .
14 The Greeks may have called the angle the sun moved through in one day 1° , which is unc of a full turn …
15 Although it had been intended to convert right through in one operation , the Crystal Palace section was not ready .
16 At least Americ-ans can choose to fly with the airline with the best chance of getting their luggage through in one piece .
17 The novel is brief — 100 pages or so — and a remarkably effective narrative which you could get through in one sitting .
18 Paint a blown egg all over in one colour and varnish it .
19 Boards can be painted all over in one colour , or individually to form a formal or striped or variegated pattern ; they can be stencilled , given a border , or topped with all sorts of imaginative decorative effects ( see Paint Finishes , pages 368–79 ) .
20 And as I say , there was always one I remember that sticks passively in my mind when she came over in one December five weekends on the trot !
21 You will be getting scenarios and you wo n't be expected to put all that information over in one block , you 're expected to structure your information .
22 Over in one corner Church was systematically emptying bottles .
23 Over in one corner was a washstand , with a big old jug , and beneath it , large and unwieldy , decorated in lurid purple flowers , an antique piss-pot .
24 Not all hairs come off in one go however , and you may need to go over sections again and again .
25 If you are a professional grower , this bud is merely one among thousands , and you will not have the time to fuss and mollycoddle it — the head comes off in one go , and the bud has to take it full blast .
26 Let's say these , let's say we mark this off in one second intervals along here .
27 INJURIES at work led to 750,000 days off in one year , a report revealed yesterday .
28 New Zealand Rail is likely to be sold off in one year as one going concern , comprising the network , rolling stock and inter-island train ferries , as urged by the railway management .
29 The men immediately set off in one direction , scrambling down through the trees and undergrowth towards the subsidiary valley where the shot had sounded .
30 The girls walked off in one direction to some hedges on the far side , leaving George with Willie and Zach .
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