Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] one [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five Board members sit along one side of a long table . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | He 's twice suffered strokes and is paralysed down one side of his body . |
| 4 | They may also be carried back one year in most circumstances . |
| 5 | If she looks round one day for someone to borrow a fiver off she might , just might , notice I 'm not there . ’ |
| 6 | At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples . |
| 7 | If you cut off one head of a hydra , two others promptly sprouted in its place . |
| 8 | In Germany the bureaucracy played a vital role in the subordination of society and the creation of elites through which the regime played off one group against another , enabling ‘ a minority to terrorize the majority ’ ( Neumann 1944 , p. 367 ) . |
| 9 | Suppose you are required to perform the simple task of placing each of a pile of twenty counters into a jam jar , picking up one counter at a time and dropping it into the jar . |
| 10 | If you have to do the collating yourself , lay each separate page-pile next to each other around the room and go round picking up one page after the other , until you have the whole pamphlet together . |
| 11 | Instead , it was Ireland batsman Charlie McCrum who made the difference , scoring and also conceding just runs in his overs , picking up one wicket along the way . |
| 12 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 13 | But it seemed even that could do little more than dull the edges of the pain , and , when she woke up one morning with a painful hangover and realised the ache in her heart was just as strong as it had ever been , she swore she 'd never again attempt to deal with her sorrows that way . |
| 14 | Deciding he did n't want to be the ‘ oldest swinger in town ’ he woke up one morning in 1987 with another hangover and decided he 'd had enough . |
| 15 | John had turned up one day in the shop . |
| 16 | TOM KITE , winner of the Bob Hope Classic at La Quinta , California , with a record-breaking 35-under-par total of 325 for the five-round tournament , has moved up one place to ninth in the latest Sony world rankings . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I wish to pick up one matter from his speech — that of dyslexia . |
| 19 | My father came back one day with an expensive book on birds . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For example , in the situation shown at cell ( 5,7 ) in Figure 6.2 the stream is moved back one cell towards the source , without altering any of the 1s and 0s , until the stream can move in a different direction . |
| 22 | Scene one is the elderly gent wearily prowling round one bookshop after another in a hopeless search for a volume on fly-fishing by J R Hartley . |
| 23 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 24 | He hands it over when I run down one flight of stairs and straight up another to arrive obediently at his side . |
| 25 | From the small paved area near the house a path leads down one side of the garden , giving access to the rotary drier and flanking the small lawn that is built up from a strong flowing curve , this helping to lead the eye away from those rectangular boundaries . |
| 26 | A recommended route is to walk down one side of Lake Rotoiti and catch a water-taxi back , a stroll of about seven miles . |
| 27 | It 's getting light as we scramble down one side of a blown bridge across a river , then scramble up the other side , slipping down , and pulling each other up again until we are all assembled on a grassy bank . |
| 28 | To get rid of such furniture because it happens not to fit into present arrangements is rather like pulling down one wing of the house concerned just because it is not for the moment in use . |
| 29 | Should circumstances dictate that a spare tank is not available then you can divide off one end of a community tank in an emergency and use this in which to keep a single fish or a breeding pair or whatever . |
| 30 | 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 . |