Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv prt] on one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rufus had propped himself up on one elbow , watching . |
| 2 | Betrayed by that shit Sarah Walker who was once his landlord 's daughter , plunged into crippling debt , mocked by polite society and dinner-table assassins , tortured by a cancer of the stomach , he could still prop himself up on one elbow in a room as shabby as this one and say exultantly ‘ Well , I 've had a happy life ! ’ |
| 3 | She lifted herself up on one elbow and looked down at his , at his face drawn with sorrow and the love that would sacrifice itself for her selfishness — and so needlessly . |
| 4 | Gazzer , a strange , urgent little figure , hurrying among them with a bloodstained rag round his right hand , dressed in filthy black trousers and a black anorak , made one or two people shield their eyes against the sun and , with lazy curiosity , prop themselves up on one elbow to follow his progress through the gardens . |
| 5 | The cigarette glowed again in the dark , and he hitched himself up on one elbow and ground it out on the earth . |
| 6 | At last , Rourke moved , propping himself up on one elbow so that he could gaze down at her . |
| 7 | Let me take you up on one or two of those points . |
| 8 | Blonde Joanne had to grin and bear it when actor boyfriend Tony Scannell , who stars as Ted in The Bill , whooped it up on one of his fun nights at Stringfellows in London . |
| 9 | Harry propped himself up on one elbow and pulled open the top drawer of the bedside cabinet . |
| 10 | She squatted beside him , as he propped himself up on one elbow to scowl back at her . |
| 11 | And then the policeman said : ‘ We 'll let you off on one condition . ’ |
| 12 | She propped herself up on one elbow . |
| 13 | She propped herself up on one elbow and looked down at his face in the starlight , her mind tangling on the mental arithmetic . |
| 14 | Well actually I 'd , I would know how to do it , but whether I 'd have the tools on me or not , just jack it up on one of them thingies |
| 15 | Half a dozen guards hurtled through it , spread out and flung themselves down on one knee . |
| 16 | He had a good head for numbers , and recited it all the way down St Martin 's Lane and into Monmouth Street ; then he went in a shop for a coffee and wrote it down on one of the paper napkins . |
| 17 | it 's all I said no it 's not I said I paid me first er payment I said wrote it down on one of those papers |
| 18 | We get tired and sometimes we take it out on one another . |
| 19 | As Mrs Cohen sat herself down on one of the wooden kitchen chairs , a basin between her feet , and commenced with some savagery to pluck the feathers from the hen 's carcass , Judith made no comment . |
| 20 | She pushed herself up on one elbow and , a strong arm behind her back , he helped her into a sitting position . |
| 21 | She pushed herself up on one elbow and said impishly , ‘ The bread smells wonderful . ’ |
| 22 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 23 | He set it down on one of the small tables , then handed her a paper napkin , a spoon and a fork before giving her one of the bowls . |