Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it is a close-run thing in any one of these seats , it could make the difference between a win or a lose for one side or the other . ’ |
| 2 | I mean for one production you may need a wig another production you wo n't . |
| 3 | Bring to the boil , then lower heat , cover and simmer for one hour . |
| 4 | It might mean that the same ten pupils were absent for the whole week ; or it might mean that overall , five pupils were absent for a whole week , plus two pupils absent for two days , plus 21 pupils absent for one day . |
| 5 | An attendance rate of 90% , however , does not mean that 10% of pupils are absent : the missing 10% could come from a small minority of pupils with lengthy absences — the same ten pupils absent for the whole week — or from a higher percentage of pupils with brief absences — fifty pupils absent for one day over the course of the week . |
| 6 | Compact , single-member , constituencies ( as opposed to large , multi-member , constituencies ) provide for one representative in a way that is said to facilitate constituent-member contact and the redress of individual grievances . |
| 7 | He send for one brother , then two brother , then four brother , then for his Mamma to make house for him in New York . |
| 8 | If for example someone has to choose between two £100 credit arrangements , both involving say about one year 's monthly instalments , then any difference in APR between the two competing alternatives is a convenient guide to comparative costs . |
| 9 | Hence , as we follow the orbit around , we oscillate between one point and the other . |
| 10 | In this sense , for example , the employment relationship was visualised by Goodrich ( 1975 ) in his classic study of the British mining industry in terms of a ‘ frontier of control ’ , the boundaries of which continually shift as one side or the other gains ascendancy . |
| 11 | ‘ I sleep with one eye open , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 12 | For me peace and prayer melt into one attitude and as my life grew ever more complex , I needed , in direct ratio , ever more peace . |
| 13 | I disagree with one point however . |
| 14 | I have known between three and four dozen boys and girls sleep in one room . |
| 15 | Well , she 'll repent of it and agree to all I say before one crumb , or one drop of water , crosses her lips . |
| 16 | As peoples shift from one part of the globe to another , from one self to another , in various states of exile , dispossession and displacement , the dominant feature of the late-twentieth century has to be the search for place . |
| 17 | As they shift from one adult to another , teachers say it is the video which keeps them under control — a new binge of blood and guts each time they are shuttled past the rental shop . |
| 18 | These are heightened in a hotel , since many people sleep within one building . |
| 19 | People who leap from one relationship to another like someone crossing a stream on stepping-stones never grow up . |
| 20 | However , they avoid modulations and leap from one key to another freely and abruptly . |
| 21 | She 'd come in , pick up a rubber skirt and say , half you ziss in one leetle size bigger ? |
| 22 | Ones such as , ‘ powerful plain pistons ’ , convey the sense of abruptness and force needed in the beginning while ones such as ‘ speed throws up strange shapes ’ slip from one word to the other giving a feeling of velocity . |
| 23 | Do I guide the Feedback Session so that we grow from one session to another ? |
| 24 | Furthermore transport from one place to another could be by the River Thames rather than the roads , which were not always safe and often impassable in some weather conditions . |
| 25 | Not realising that " Ip in one case meant " armed man " and in the other " thousand " , this was tidied up to read 59,300 . |
| 26 | Take two felt-tip pens , of different colours , and underline in one colour all the words that catch the meaning you intended , that evoke strongly the feelings you have about the room . |
| 27 | Two games fit on one disk . |
| 28 | Remove and place on one side . |
| 29 | It was like a chain , with Leconte and Forget at one end . |
| 30 | drip at one end . |