Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sal and Kitty first set eyes on my prize , they could n't stop jumping up and down with excitement and even helped me to paint down one side , ‘ Charlie Trumper , the honest trader , founded in 1823 ’ . |
| 2 | This is exactly what this staircase is , and to get from one room to another you had to go down one staircase and up another . |
| 3 | On a Sunday , they could go down to chapel , the old girls 'd to go down one side of the aisle , they 'd go down the other , the old men , tried to put his hand out , touch the old lady … |
| 4 | It is much easier just to come along one night and do what everyone else does . |
| 5 | You see coal used to come down one incline and the and and it used to knock the empties off , two empties off , you see ? |
| 6 | So , I mean , they was trying to come up one day so I could watch the telly and I really needed to . |
| 7 | I 'd love to come back one day and see how such good youngsters as Simon Brown , Mark Briers , Paul Henderson , Stewart Hutton and John Wood are working out . ’ |
| 8 | Many of the thousands of youngsters who were at last night 's tie as non-paying guests may have been sufficiently impressed to want to come back one day as paying customers . |
| 9 | Ellis managed to track down one contemporary who described him as , quote , a horrible little shit who thought he was Napoleon , unquote . |
| 10 | If this were the case , most people , whose call is to marriage , would be able to pick up one message and one message only from celibates . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course we are , ’ Ross told them , bending down to pick up one twin and then the other . |
| 12 | A Japanese freighter left Yokohama in mid-August , with its name and port of registration blanked out , to pick up one tonne of plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel at the Cap La Hague reprocessing plant in France . |
| 13 | I wish to pick up one matter from his speech — that of dyslexia . |
| 14 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 15 | One problem with this is that comparisons have a tendency to set up one group covertly as the norm ; in the case of sex , it is men who are the norm . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend is right : if one tries to pick out one element and not the others , the result may not be beneficial . |
| 17 | Any attempt to pick out one concept , such as that of an individual , and theorise about it , will always be vulnerable to the challenge , ‘ But how is that concept to be explained ? ’ |
| 18 | It 's only too easy to say , oh yes , we can make chairs … we can make kitchens and three-piece suites … grand pianos , anything you like , but what we have to do is to pick out one thing that we think is a winner and actually do that properly . ’ |
| 19 | A couple of years ago I was staying in Malham for a few days and decided to set out one morning for Attermire by the old pack lane from Settle to Malham . |
| 20 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 21 | A recommended route is to walk down one side of Lake Rotoiti and catch a water-taxi back , a stroll of about seven miles . |
| 22 | The seller 's intention is to play off one buyer against another and introduce elements of haste and competitive bidding into negotiations in order to maximise the price . |
| 23 | Somehow he always managed to play off one creditor against another , claiming he was just awaiting payment for some big deal or other that was in the pipeline . |
| 24 | She was annoyed to discover that Wendy was not in fact married to Ken : it meant she had to tear up one certificate and start making out another . |
| 25 | But he wants it to go up one percent . |
| 26 | I 've had my picture taken alongside most of Snowdonia 's summit cairns and I no longer feel prodded by guide books or pressured by time to tick off one top after another . |
| 27 | One of two possible methods is to divide off one end of the tank using a clear divider and install the new fish into the smaller section , after a few days when the other occupants of the tank have accepted the newcomer then remove the divider and let all of the fish mix . |
| 28 | So I decided to give up one sugar and you know , I have to take it sort of weak weaker anyway . |
| 29 | Children involved in preparing for meal-times will need to put out one mug for each child and may rely on one-to-one correspondence without counting . |
| 30 | He broke off and removed his arms from around her waist , and she had to put out one hand to regain her balance . |