Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We fought as one nation during the war and of course those Englishmen here today old enough to remember the period will recall , I 'm sure , the young American G Is who were part of our community . |
| 2 | The vast majority of them had tried , and failed for one reason or another , to get into one or other of the local preparatory schools . |
| 3 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 4 | I asked for one ticket and paid for it , then I watched him ask for the same and fish down inside his carrier bag and bring out a ten pound note . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher agreed to allow the Report to be sent out for consultation , but asked for one alteration . |
| 6 | After emptying and washing each well , 100 µl of sample or standard ( diluted 1 in 80 in phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.2 , and containing 0.1% Tween and 0.5% bovine serum albumin to prevent non-specific protein binding to the plate ) were added and incubated for one hour . |
| 7 | Recombinant human tumour necrosis factor-α ( TNF-α ) ( Boehringer Mannheim , Germany ) ( 0.1–100 ng/ml ) was added to effector cells and incubated for one day . |
| 8 | If they fought for one side or the other , Standard Oil would be fighting Standard Oil . |
| 9 | Briefly , antigen strips preincubated for one hour in blocking buffer ( 5% non-fat milk powder in phosphate buffered saline pH 7.2 , containing 0.05% Tween 20 ) were incubated overnight at room temperature in serum samples ( diluted 1:100 v/v in blocking buffer ) or mouse monoclonal antibody GL2 that recognises Giardia heat shock antigen ( diluted 1:1000 v/v in blocking buffer ) . |
| 10 | Regular programmes began in July 1951 , when the station transmitted for one hour only , three days per week . |
| 11 | I spent so much effort and expense to outbid my rivals , I never stopped for one moment to consider if I really wanted the prize . |
| 12 | An incident occurred during one session when the children were drawing together . |
| 13 | AGE-SPECIFIC RATES — The frequency of demographic events ( live births , deaths , marriages , etc. ) that occurred during one year in a population defined by age ( usually one or five-year age groups ) and also often by sex relative to the size of population of the given age or age group ( and sex ) relative to the mid-year size of the same population ( expressed per 1,000 population ) . |
| 14 | An instance of the kind of fluidity I have in mind occurred for one boy who was in role as a ‘ robot controller ’ . |
| 15 | With Jamie Pollock suspended for one match , Proctor could press his claims for a recall to the squad . |
| 16 | The glasses he was wearing flew off his face ; the bottle of blood crashed against one wall … . |
| 17 | It might still be necessary to ask why delinquency occurred with one son or daughter but not another . |
| 18 | Also , he found that whenever he moved into one group or another , the warren rabbits evidently knew who he was and treated him as the leader of the newcomers . |
| 19 | By the time she reached the shorter flight of stairs on the half-landing , Frankie had retreated all the way to his room and closed the door behind him , leaving only the smallest gap through which he peered with one eye . |
| 20 | I drank mint tea in the carpet shops ( and found Stefan Grappelli , Bryan Ferry and Ben Kingsley listed in one shop 's order book ) . |
| 21 | Like a ping-pong ball he bounced from one emotion to another , knowing what he wanted but knowing also that it did not exist . |
| 22 | At one time the abbot 's vineyards stretched all the way to the River Severn , from beneath the castle walls where 98 corpses hung after the siege of Shrewsbury described in One Corpse Too Many . |
| 23 | The late postoperative mortality , and we have defined this as death occurring between thirty and ninety days , was a mean of three point seven percent for the region as a whole and the inter-site variations for this ranged from one point seven percent to six point eight percent . |
| 24 | 1.3. b ( v ) Institutions that listed their numbers of school- based inset days ranged from one College and two Polytechnics doing 40+ to 11 institutions doing no school-based work , and 12 who made no response to this question . |
| 25 | Many times I moved from one state to the other until I mustered the strength to cling to the twilight zone without slipping back into darkness . |
| 26 | Like a reject from Duran Duran , Frankie Mac moved from one night-spot to another in search of notoriety and another naughty dame . |
| 27 | We used to regard any inflation as an evil ; there were years in living memory when prices hardly moved from one year to the next . |
| 28 | This ensured there was time to make to love to her , an activity that would frequently fill the time as he moved from one lady 's home to another 's . |
| 29 | When they moved from one field to another he leaned down to unlatch and open gates , and as the bay gelding went through the grey mare followed dutifully . |
| 30 | Until Hopkin & Williams published its paper in The Analyst ( 1961 , p464 ) , every laboratory had its own preferred prime standardisation substance , and if one moved from one lab to another one would find that the primary standard — say sodium hydrogen phthalate , borax or sodium carbonate — produced a slightly different standard acid from the one the old laboratory used . |