Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 2 | I tried to get on one two Mondays ago in Redditch |
| 3 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 4 | Her gaze had drifted as she spoke and seemed to rest on one of the photographs displayed nearby . |
| 5 | They seemed centred on one particular grave , so the Doctor stepped over to it for a closer look . |
| 6 | Jessamy pushed them irritably to one side and began to work on one of the dragons , filling in some of the more intricate details . |
| 7 | She darted away and began spinning on one foot in the middle of the room , but he quickly took hold of her and drew her back . |
| 8 | Alexei started to pull on one of the ropes . |
| 9 | He could not bear to talk about what had happened and so he handed it to Julia and went to sit on one of the excruciatingly uncomfortable gilded chairs by the window while she read it . |
| 10 | Tom King did try on one occasion to attack Labour 's defence policy — but mainly on the grounds that it would lose jobs . |
| 11 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
| 12 | ‘ Poor old Home Office ’ , Soskice had minuted on one file . |
| 13 | The memory was triggered by talk of a young woman I had met on one trip who showed me Dyrhólæy and the sea pinnacles of Reynisdrangar near Vik . |
| 14 | The village of Markham cum Cumbermound had grown on one of the rare patches of clay with which the fens were dotted . |
| 15 | What the pope had decided on one occasion would be applicable in a similar instance . |
| 16 | Nowadays most of that set had moved on one way or another , though the odd one still dropped in occasionally . |
| 17 | One got the impression that Mr Callaghan felt that he had to put on one side the normal practice of consulting only a small group of inner ministers on economic issues , and had to carry all the colleagues , all twenty-two , if he was to have a hope of carrying the party in the country clearly out of the crisis . |
| 18 | An advertisement had appeared on one of the university noticeboards saying that Benghazi University in Libya was looking for a lecturer in engineering . |
| 19 | She had put on one of Alice 's brassières under the dress she had lent her , but it looked odd , so she had to take it off . |
| 20 | Alec had lived on one of the three main streets north of the river and it had a name I remembered — Clashbea Road . |
| 21 | As an interesting echo , the flight commander of the Fairey Foxes was a Lt Donnet , whom I met later at RAF Sylt , and I was very amused to hear his version , the Belgian 's claim was that a Whitley had fired on one of his Foxes and wounded the observer , although they were able to land safely . |
| 22 | Years ago we stored water in a big cream pot but that came to grief during a hard frost and we had to resort on one occasion to a possing tub — that is a fluted tub made from galvanized metal which was common to most households before washing machines — which , of course , had to be used for soaking the dirty clothes on washing day . |
| 23 | A priest who happened to be visiting my mother volunteered to stay on one of these occasions , but the screams drove him out . |
| 24 | Mistress Philippa sat huddled on one of the benches , her face in her hands . |