Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Minton did , afterwards taking Tindle back to Hamilton Terrace where his large picture , The Death of Nelson , still in progress , was hanging on one wall . |
| 2 | So and then erm , of course they start bringing in one man buses and the conductors were no longer required . |
| 3 | AFTER tearing down one wall , the Germans are busy putting up thousands of others . |
| 4 | In signing off one night , at the end of the news , there was time to mention one or two events that were being held in the region . |
| 5 | Because it was an old house that they were renovating , and it had got so much rot in it and woodworm , and he said he said he said th there they were walking up one minute and the next minute the piano was just going down through the stairs . |
| 6 | Imagine walking out one day and thinking about the light . |
| 7 | There was a hole in the ceiling to let in the rain but just to be safe he returned every day for a week to water them and was walking back one afternoon when , turning a corner , he felt a hand on his shoulder . |
| 8 | She was walking back one day , her baskets empty , her spirit almost peaceful for once . |
| 9 | Thereupon turn right into Between Towns Road , heading towards the Cowley centre , and passing over one mini-roundabout . |
| 10 | When he came back he was carrying the calf , his arms encompassing all four legs , so the hooves came together in a bunch , with the rump and tail protruding over one forearm and the shoulders and chest over the other . |
| 11 | Her hat was a stained velvet Rembrandt , fruit lurching over one ear , and her dark glasses made her a parody of Bette Davis 's cameo wicked eccentrics . |
| 12 | Suppose you are required to perform the simple task of placing each of a pile of twenty counters into a jam jar , picking up one counter at a time and dropping it into the jar . |
| 13 | If you have to do the collating yourself , lay each separate page-pile next to each other around the room and go round picking up one page after the other , until you have the whole pamphlet together . |
| 14 | Instead , it was Ireland batsman Charlie McCrum who made the difference , scoring and also conceding just runs in his overs , picking up one wicket along the way . |
| 15 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 16 | Rainfall is likely to increase locally , as a result of higher levels of evaporation and transpiration , with sea level rises averaging around one metre . |
| 17 | One friend , who has a job as well as a family of five , has her widowed mother living round one corner and her mother-in-law round the other . |
| 18 | Scene one is the elderly gent wearily prowling round one bookshop after another in a hopeless search for a volume on fly-fishing by J R Hartley . |
| 19 | The operator has the choice of turning down one microphone — if for instance the class is working in groups and you only want to hear one group at a time — or of recording the combined sound of , say , teacher and student microphones on one audio track . |
| 20 | To get rid of such furniture because it happens not to fit into present arrangements is rather like pulling down one wing of the house concerned just because it is not for the moment in use . |
| 21 | At March 1979 the number of in-patients waiting over one year was 185,195 . |
| 22 | It had been , however briefly , a time when her body and her mind had fitted together so tidily and wholely that , waking up one morning and deciding that it was time to go back to Oxford and visit her mother , was neither traumatic nor casual , but straightforward . |
| 23 | It was this arrangement that led to Branson waking up one morning in March 1976 , at his home in Denbigh Terrace , to find three men standing at the foot of his bed demanding money . |
| 24 | It was n't a case of a lorry-load of new stuff — all rubber and zips and suspender belts — turning up one day . |
| 25 | Herbert Cranko used to tell a story about a very dark-skinned man named Cranko turning up one day in his Johannesburg office , calling him uncle and announcing that he was short of money . |
| 26 | And that 's when he said he said I 'll be going up one night when it 's dark he said . |
| 27 | Breathe slowly from the stomach not the chest — breathing in to a count of four slowly and out to a count of four slowly , or visualize your breathing-in as going up one side of a hill , experiencing the plateau at the top and then breathing-out as though coming down the other side . |
| 28 | Going up one flight of stairs to visit the lavatory is not worth recording as exercise for the average person ! |
| 29 | Once these buildings were the heart of Swindon , they employed 14,000 people , turning out one locomotive every week and a wagon every hour . |
| 30 | We are separating out one aspect for analysis , but doing this is slightly artificial . |