Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had not recognized my feelings for one of the women in the women 's group as being of any significance . |
| 2 | His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable . |
| 3 | Ominously for users of the postal services , the Post Office was reported to have quadrupled its profits in one year . |
| 4 | American students emerging from school are far more adept than our school-leavers , even the most academically able , at explaining their subjects , relating their interests to one another over a wide range , and demonstrating some notion of the unity of science . |
| 5 | How satisfying it would have been to vent her feelings in one sharp slap of that carved-ivory face ! |
| 6 | ‘ You would have spent the night in my arms , Caroline , ’ he caught her hands in one of his as she began to raise them , ‘ crying out my name as I touched you , begging me to take you over and over again , until finally the sun chased away the darkness . ’ |
| 7 | Police decided they would concentrate their inquiries on one surviving child — five-month-old Paul Crampton , from Leadenham , near Grantham . |
| 8 | She could picture him so clearly , sitting waiting at the airport , that she ground her teeth at one point , made spitting noises . |
| 9 | Ford and Budd hooked their computers into one another to exchange design information more rapidly . |
| 10 | John Nicholson wafted in and out of their lives and Jack 's recollections of the man he imagined was his father are tinged with a certain sorrow that he had become an alcoholic , with memories of scenes on the home front , and of the young Jack cooling his heels outside one bar or another with a fizzy drink while his ‘ father ’ stood inside drinking neat brandies . |
| 11 | Over the years many men have come to my clinic because they have considered themselves failures in one vital respect . |
| 12 | I had visions of having to pay vast amounts as ‘ punishment ’ , but in the end they just re-scheduled our flights for one whole day later . |
| 13 | It declared that " the era of confrontation and division of Europe has ended " and that henceforth signatories would conduct their relations with one another on the basis of " respect and co-operation " . |
| 14 | Over 6m first-time shareholders — the admen 's ‘ Sid ’ , the character who bought British Gas — got their shares in one of the state sell-offs . |
| 15 | I have been sought redress for people damaged by the utilities , but over the years the Government have pushed my pleas to one side . |
| 16 | After a while , however , she forced herself to smile , and dried her eyes on one of Fleury 's shirt sleeves that looked fairly clean . |
| 17 | Voting has a ritual aspect , whereby citizens formally and publicly show their preferences for one party over others , and hence their willingness to accept the result of the contest , and their legitimation of that result . |
| 18 | I 've always liked chickens — the way they hold their heads on one side and look up at you with one eye . |
| 19 | He left Ranulf and Maltote to feed their faces in one of the many pie shops which stood just within the walls of the palace and pushed his way through the crowds , taking the path around the Great Hall to the buildings beyond . |
| 20 | Patrick would have liked to get his hands on the Jaguar , but Jim ate his sandwiches with one hand on the wheel . |
| 21 | By the 1740s the Moghul central government had grown too weak to impose peace on Europeans , in the 1750s the British and the French took an important role in struggles among Indians , and by 1763 the British had made themselves rulers of one of the most important regions of India , though they had not yet worked out a legal form to express the new reality in India . |
| 22 | Lightly coat your hands with one or two drops and smooth over your hair , before or after styling . |
| 23 | You see they 've accepted our terms in one way because of the stage payments . |
| 24 | What do you do — put your ideas to one side and spend the next few months feeling deflated ; or do you take out a Midland Personal Loan now and enjoy the benefits of your purchase , paying the money back in easy stages ? |
| 25 | Sofa Head 's greatest asset is the realisation that you do n't have to set your sights on one target . |
| 26 | Sofa Head 's greatest asset is the realisation that you do n't have to set your sights on one target . |
| 27 | She likes music and dancing , too — she showed her legs in one dance ! ’ |
| 28 | But when she would have moved lower in her innocent foray Guy captured her hands with one of his and pinned them gently above her head . |
| 29 | ( Russian singers do n't spend their lives with one company any more . ) |
| 30 | Occasionally an airline would suspend its operations to one or both capitals , but most found the volume of traffic , even at depressed war-time levels , justified their continuing to fly . |