Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The application of sophisticated mathematical techniques and other Blue Skies approaches in engineering may come about through collaboration , but the important point to realise is that once formal or rigorous methods have been developed and applied successfully in one field of engineering , they may be applicable , suitably modified , to others and perhaps lead to more reliable specifications and designs in general . |
| 2 | Barnard considered that the energy introduced into the homoeopathic potency during the succussion process stabilized the arrangement of the water polymers and that it was these shape-specific polymers which were built up and passed on from one potency to the next . |
| 3 | In the case of Statement B racism is entailed in a set of inherited predispositions passed on from one generation to another . |
| 4 | We were a group of young people who all lived locally in one of the poorest areas on the outskirts of San Salvador . |
| 5 | Rincewind got down on one knee , the better to arrange the picture , and pressed the enchanted lever . |
| 6 | Sadberge won the wooden trophy made especially by one of the Haughton players . |
| 7 | It swooped down on one of the dogs and was standing on its chest with its beak at her throat . |
| 8 | For racial nationalists , all these influences led inexorably to one conclusion . |
| 9 | It , it worked out , my mum at first thought it were n't too bad cos she got in with one of these special offer things . |
| 10 | The economic realities meant that Prussia 's weight was thus far greater than the constitutional arrangements suggested : the Zollverein was administered by a sort of Council of Ministers which met annually in one of the capitals , and it took decisions by unanimity . |
| 11 | But eventually the servile condition of the peasants ( and the privileged status of nobles ) became hereditary , passed down from one generation to the next . |
| 12 | They held each other tight , so tight that it took their breath away , zipped together into one being . |
| 13 | The juveniles could be brought into a place of safety and passed along to one of the agencies for intensive counselling , but the rest of them — those over eighteen , and who were neither obviously offending nor mentally ill — were free agents . |
| 14 | Robyn dumped her holdall on to the floor and sank on to one of the chintzy sofas . |
| 15 | Most sailing clubs will have a few catamarans clustered together in one end of the dinghy park , but if you are keen to race one it is best to choose a club that has plenty of water space and specialises in a large multihull fleet . |
| 16 | Gaining the peaceful emptiness of her mother 's large sitting-room , with its windows overlooking the spectacular view over the water to Fort St Angelo , she sank down into one of the green chintz sofas and took stock of herself . |
| 17 | Newcomers often found work in areas that lay outside the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor and Corporation , in what had once been rural manors ; they moved constantly from one district to another . |
| 18 | The two youngsters shouted gleefully to one another as they raced upstairs . |
| 19 | In a cavity between it and the central part of the body , most species have gills which are continually bathed by a current of oxygen-bearing water , sucked in at one end of the cavity and expelled at the other . |
| 20 | Hitch moved swiftly from one body to the other , firing another shot into the head of each man . |
| 21 | One of the few senior aides in the confidence of the couple admits it is unlikely Tim bent down on one knee to pop the question . |
| 22 | While the rest of the humans bent down by one of the flat tyres it strolled up to the gate , fiddled the teeth of the pliers on to the padlock , and squeezed . |
| 23 | A total of 1,636 Garratts ran on eighty-six railways in forty-eight countries : of these , Beyer , Peacock built just over one thousand . |
| 24 | Nothing daunted , the mourners moved over to one side and made the most of this grand reunion . |
| 25 | The Greeks may have called the angle the sun moved through in one day 1° , which is unc of a full turn … |
| 26 | It just as is the want of sheep , it just wandered away from one clump of grass to another , losing all sense of time and direction until it , was lost ! |
| 27 | We roped up for one awkward pitch before reaching the summit , which was now cloaked in thick mist , the weather deteriorating rapidly . |
| 28 | The car drew up at one of the big houses on the prosperous shore road , facing the grassy slope that led up to the promenade . |
| 29 | They drew up before one of a pair of red brick semi-detached houses in a street of other houses like it . |
| 30 | He also knew the face — the firm jaw , the wide mouth that sagged slightly on one side as though supporting an invisible cigarette , the pert nose , the dark blue eyes : the constituent parts of beauty . |