Example sentences of "[v-ing] it one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell them they could be wearing it one day . ’ |
| 2 | But while some reasons favour monthly payments and others favour quarterly ones , neither is sufficient to establish the superiority of doing it one way rather than the other . |
| 3 | His mother had caught him doing it one day and had been extremely angry with him . |
| 4 | We did n't tell anyone , and I took things very quietly , doing exactly what was advised and taking it one day at a time . |
| 5 | ‘ We are deliberately taking it one step at a time … |
| 6 | ‘ We are taking it one step at a time and working with the police . ’ |
| 7 | I mean , you 're only using it one day a week . |
| 8 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |