Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] on one " in BNC.
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1 | I assume that Crilly has been picked up on one of his many ‘ wanted ’ charges and that the police are calling to confirm the address he has given . |
2 | So I 've picked up on one . |
3 | There was not a great deal to see , as he was curled up on one side with his thumb jammed in his mouth , and four chubby fingers obscured that part of his face not pressed deep into the bolster . |
4 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
5 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big -ENG roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
6 | Hence , chemical studies are confidently carried out on one or at most a very few instances of the materials that chemists are analysing and synthesizing . |
7 | All processing was carried out on one definition at a time . |
8 | ‘ This was a dastardly act carried out on one of the busiest days of the week . |
9 | The easiest format for the script is one in which the shot details are written down on one side of the page , while the corresponding words of commentary are written opposite them on the other side . |
10 | This section of the road is continuously built up on one side and contains ten residential access points . |
11 | He was still lying on her bed , his head propped up on one hand . |
12 | Lil , propped up on one elbow , grins at me from under a towelling turban . |
13 | He was propped up on one elbow , his dark hair sweat-curled , his eyes gleaming with desire , his naked chest and arms magnificent in their absolute masculinity . |
14 | Lying on your left side , propped up on one arm and with the left leg bent back , raise and lower the right leg while pressing down on your thigh with the ball . |
15 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
16 | She was sitting hunched up on one of the two comfortable chairs in the cubby-hole where the staff went for their breaks . |
17 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
18 | The boy was stretched out on one and the male nurse took the other . |
19 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
20 | No sooner had she sunk down on one of the chesterfields than he was hunkering down in front of her , lifting her injured foot to rest on his knee , removing the shoe and gently touching the nylon-covered flesh beneath the delicate ankle-bone . |
21 | And , with a thankful sigh , Shiona had sunk down on one of the sofas in the reception area . |
22 | Er because the pit bottom was lit up and it meant going down into the dark , an exciting thought for a young fella , er and so off I went and I was put down on one of the faces , as a lad , and said , Right lad , you want to be collier ? |
23 | Their habits , modes of thought , patterns of speech , style of drafting will have rubbed off on one another to the point where but a few free or tough or independent spirits resist mutation into a sludgy administrative amalgam . |
24 | Then if it 's not going to be taken up on one of those five years , you have to leave that payment , you lose it . |
25 | So it 's something folded back on one side yes , ? |
26 | Frustrated in that sector , speculators turned to every other potential bid target in sight , even taking the chance to roll out a few genuinely new stories , presumably cooked up on one of those many idle dealing days during the election campaign . |
27 | A photograph of the man could be flashed up on one side of the screen with a contrasting picture of his frail victim on the other side . |
28 | In mid-June 1940 , when the Nazis were sweeping through Belgium , we were sent out on one occasion to find a very large wooded area near Rotterdam . |