Example sentences of "[vb past] one [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cash only contributed one song to the second Highwaymen album , Highwayman 2 , a number called Songs that Make a Difference . |
| 2 | They want the flightpath moved one mile to the west . |
| 3 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 4 | He described One journey to the source of the James River in 1738 in a letter to Collinson , ‘ … over and between the mountains in many very crooked turnings and windings ; in which I travelled 1,100 miles in five weeks , having rested but one day in all that time … |
| 5 | From the main living room , master bedroom , guest bedrooms , dining room , kitchen level , the house jutted and dropped one floor to a ‘ playroom ’ . |
| 6 | Faint dot-matrix notices from ill-understood PCWs signalled one approach to parochial administration , hand-written messages in washed-out green biro about where to find the church building 's keys another . |
| 7 | I lifted one foot to the top of the parapet . |
| 8 | He lifted one hand to her mouth and gently freed her lower lip from between her teeth , soothing it with a stroking , caressing movement of his thumb . |
| 9 | There came one day to the palace a certain Dr Shakar . |
| 10 | Furthermore , as cogently argued by Finkelstein ( 1980 ) , Goffman , in borrowing the concept of stigma from ancient Greece , where it referred to ‘ a bodily sign … cut or burned into the body and advertising that the bearer was a slave ’ ( Goffman , 1963 , p. 19 ) chooses to interpret its meaning as one of ‘ blemish and ritual pollution ’ rather than of the power and inequality which allowed one person to be a slaveholder and compelled another to be a slave . |
| 11 | As usual I watched and wondered and defended one side to the other . |
| 12 | The driver of the police car purchased two packets of Kent and threw one pack to his friend who caught it without a pause in his speech to Signe , then saluted , and both policemen got into the Porsche . |
| 13 | It was probably at his suggestion that the Wordsworths walked one evening to Holford , a small village three miles west from Stowey on the road to Putsham and Kilve . |
| 14 | He raised one hand to the back of his head ; his fingers came away stained with blood . |
| 15 | She tipped one ear to the road , listening to the last of Mitch . |
| 16 | His was the snarling rage , hers the shame as she peed and peed and swore one day to be big enough to beat him , razor his skin , utterly humiliate him , and scorn his cries for mercy . |
| 17 | Then he tied one strand to another . |
| 18 | He tied one end to the stub of a broken aerial housing . |
| 19 | Push the E position needles to D position ( where the selected needles come to ) , sometimes called upper working position and knit one row to the left . |
| 20 | On the right ( the opposite side to the carriage ) bring five needles to D position and knit one row to the right . |
| 21 | He recommended one walk to those who would avoid being tired — Borrowdale , Buttermere , Newlands , Rosthwaite , Keswick , a mere 23 miles . |
| 22 | ‘ What the hell 's he doing ? ’ whispered one policeman to another at the Kensington exchange , to be met by a shrug . |
| 23 | Attlee , the least affected of post-war politicians , with the possible exception of Sir Alec Douglas-Home , made one concession to his new and unexpected status , as Colville recalls : |
| 24 | He passed one fragment to Oak , the elder . |
| 25 | When I took a rolled-up sample of legal tender , printed by the Royal Mint , applied one end to my right nostril , placed a restraining finger upon my left nostril , rested the other end of the said note upon a mirror or any other shiny reflective surface , upon which was displayed a slender tranche or ‘ line ’ of exotic Colombian snuff , and breathed in as deeply as my lungs would allow , I was merely relaxing in a manner by no means untypical amongst overworked show-business operatives . |
| 26 | Vinoba in his pilgrimages around India asking for land to be distributed to the poor said , ‘ I myself went one day to the temple of Deogar , but the priests beat me because I brought my brothers , the pariahs ( outcastes ) there . |
| 27 | She looked for him once or twice ; even went one day to the tiny public library which was in a room with stained glass windows at the back of the Town Hall , but she could n't find him . |
| 28 | For what Mrs Maugham thought one week to be wholly disgraceful , she was praising the next , and with no apparent consciousness of discrepancy . |
| 29 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |
| 30 | In February Mr Edward Shevardnadze , the Russian foreign minister , offered one answer to Israel 's nuclear quandary . |