Example sentences of "[vb past] [v-ing] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly she imagined taking one step after another until she reported that she could physically go no further because the slope of the ceiling was so steep . |
| 2 | Dorcas risked opening one eye . |
| 3 | There was no answer to her gibe , and , despite the fact that the fumes in the room told her the substance on her hair was likely to blind her if it made contact , she sat up and risked opening one eye . |
| 4 | Allen , the Hal Far station commander , reported seeing Deacon 's combat and confirmed observing one Messerschmitt crash into the sea ; Deacon was subsequently credited with one destroyed as a result . |
| 5 | I started using one hand and it was ages before I learnt to use two . |
| 6 | For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli . |
| 7 | As for complaints that employers falsely claimed bad workmanship or embezzlement of materials to deduct fines from wages , even William Temple , an ardent polemicist for the clothiers in a dispute with the West Country weavers in 1727 , admitted knowing one clothier who stopped wages " in a most base and flagrant manner " , despite which he became a JP . |
| 8 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 9 | Five little ducks went swimming one day |
| 10 | Yeah five little ducks went swimming one day |
| 11 | four little ducks went swimming one day over the hills and far away |
| 12 | two little ducks went swimming one day over the hills and far away |
| 13 | went swimming one day over the hills and far away |
| 14 | I 'm on number two quack , quack , one little duck came swimming back , one little duck went swimming one day over the hills and far away one duck said quack |
| 15 | Oh he , he went swimming one time and that was pretty good |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been to that riding-stable — Angela 's sister Jennifer and I went hacking one day when I stayed the weekend there . |
| 17 | This meant unclasping one hand from the other , and the mite took instant advantage , working its way up into his wrist . |
| 18 | He went missing one night when she was sleeping soundly across the hut from me , being under the mistaken impression that he and his crew had been grounded because of an electrical fault in their aircraft . |
| 19 | We got talking one evening last week , and he was asking about Carinish Court . |
| 20 | He also liked playing one person off against another , mischievously involving a young man with the girl-friend of a boy he himself fancied . |
| 21 | ‘ I never saw such a union of earth , sky , and sea , ’ Dorothy wrote following one hill-top walk . |