Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] in one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight hundred thousand — imagine them drawn up down there on the sea — eight hundred thousand candles all blown out in one gigantic breath . |
| 2 | Inside these glass globes — part of what Henry James called " the thick detail of London life " — you can see lettering put there by the shop owners , and just make out in one globe the word TEA . |
| 3 | The true aim of the martial arts is to avoid conflict ; it is best summed up in one commentator 's description of aikido as ‘ the honourable art of getting the hell out of the way ’ . |
| 4 | Being out of doors means they are not always cooped up in one room with their mothers . |
| 5 | Assembly of the back is also carried out in one operation . |
| 6 | Power circuits on a modern installation are also wired up in one of two ways , as ring or radical circuits . |
| 7 | She 's probably sitting down in one of the cloakrooms . |
| 8 | Eisenhower 's feelings at the start of the Anglo-French action against Egypt were strikingly summed up in one notable outburst : I 've just never seen great powers make such a complete mess and botch of things … |
| 9 | Manufacturing , for example , is often carried out in one regional centre . |
| 10 | The issues which will inevitably come up in one form or another include ‘ no first use ’ of nuclear weapons , about which a good deal has been written , not least in No-First-Use ( Blackaby et al . , |
| 11 | The sort of problems the owners ’ party have had on this trip so far are a tap that wo n't stop dripping , a blind that wo n't stay down in one of the bedrooms , eh ? , and a lady who thought one of her suitcases had been stolen , only it turned up in someone else 's room . ’ |
| 12 | The men immediately set off in one direction , scrambling down through the trees and undergrowth towards the subsidiary valley where the shot had sounded . |
| 13 | I remember being terrified of going into Harrods because I thought King Herod lived there , and that I would n't come out in one piece . |
| 14 | A local councillor is claiming tonight that the chemical works which was completely burned out in one of the region 's biggest fires for decades , had been a fire risk for some time . |