Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 2 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 3 | Now I 'm not suggesting for one moment that anybody who has all the problems that dear Mr has there , but I think we might be able to learn something , do you ? |
| 4 | I 'm not suggesting for one moment it 's easy , but I mean is it possible that , you know erm accepting that this is a major conflict , it does involve all of us whether we like it or not |
| 5 | If you have embarked on this decision , entertaining friends at home may became increasingly difficult too , for your parent may look forward always to being present on these occasions , without realising for one moment that her daughter needs the opportunity sometimes to be able to relate to her friends alone , so that she can project her personality freely and share confidences and opinions with people of her own generation . |
| 6 | If the polls do influence people in this way , then we are truly stepping through one mirror after another . |
| 7 | Are you mark knocking off one mark for each mistake ? |
| 8 | Even in the corn-exchange of a country town on a market-day the equilibrium price is affected by calculations of the future relations of production and consumption ; while in the leading corn-markets of America and Europe dealings for future delivery already predominate and are rapidly weaving into one web all the leading threads of trade in corn throughout the whole world . |
| 9 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 10 | Morgan reduced speed and checked his appearance in the rear-view mirror , driving with one hand . |
| 11 | Motorists were also criticised for using a carphone while driving , driving with one hand , bad lane discipline and being inconsiderate to pedestrians . |
| 12 | The way Albert was staring at her , dry and disbelieving with one eyebrow raised , was so maddening ! |
| 13 | ‘ Indeed , ’ said Mrs Mac Donald , delicately checking with one finger that her hat was still on straight . |
| 14 | One kind , Bathygobius , has the habit of leaping from one pool to another as the tide retreats . |
| 15 | A car engine throbbed , people called greetings , there was the creak of shutters opening in one flat and the sound of a radio in another . |
| 16 | Motions occurring in one ground may acquire differing emotional and physical attributed in another ground . |
| 17 | Specialists , moreover , often build their careers by moving from one authority to another rather than by climbing within one authority . |
| 18 | So he asked if he could publish it on the morning of press day ; appearing in one paper in London would not undermine the American publicity . |
| 19 | Only when things go wrong is the veil of privacy which normally conceals the workings of married life lifted , and usually in the hope of discovering that what is happening in one marriage is not , after all , so dissimilar from what is happening in others . |
| 20 | The profile of the street remains unchanged , but parking takes the form of stretches of right-angle and alongside parking , alternating from one side of the road to the other every 50 metres or so . |
| 21 | The area around Perry Barr Wharf has several industrial areas , alternating from one side of the canal to the other . |
| 22 | The army had stopped laughing within one week of receiving Gary . |
| 23 | It is important to book as early as possible , since kennels fill up quickly at peak times , with customers booking from one year to the next . |
| 24 | From the clifftop he watched the small figure of Detective Furness in his red anorak on the saddle below , twisting from one side to another as he strained his eyes against the bright sunlight to search for his charge . |
| 25 | Returning from one trip , where they had licensed the material of three groups to different American record labels , Branson and Draper were greeted at Heathrow airport by a girl brandishing a questionnaire : Where have you been ? |
| 26 | Instead of the single , level playing-field for financial services that the Community talks of , the field will indeed be single but still sloping from one end to the other . |
| 27 | In a letter to Hopkins on the Southampton situation dated 10 August 1911 , he wrote " all the reforms the Southampton people are asking for we discussed at the Executive Meeting before the strike took place and we were all agreed that certain alterations had to take place , but when women and children are starving in one port and there is money locked up in Southampton I think it is one of the most cruel tragedies imaginable " . |
| 28 | We regret that we are unable to provide this rail fare facility for clients booking within one week of departure . |
| 29 | A survey has found that some hospitals are so badly designed that doctors spend four hours of every working day just walking from one ward to another . |
| 30 | Well , I went with a friend from university and we both enjoyed walking and in particular we enjoyed walking from one place to another place , and last summer was the only last long break either of us would ever really have and erm |