Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] [prep] one " in BNC.

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1 Deemy was on hand next morning at sunrise to see me off aboard one of the transport planes carrying some 40 young pilots en route to Fairbanks .
2 The law protected farmers living near subsistence level who needed something to carry them over from one harvest to the next , especially if the harvest had been bad .
3 This means that using a program like WINFAX , you can combine document and data from a variety of Windows applications — a letter from word processing , a graphic from your paint program , a design from DTP , a graph from the spreadsheet etc and send them off in one FAX .
4 Molly moved them carefully to one end of the bar before she hung up Hugh 's clothes and her summer dresses .
5 His main role with the consultants was to open a new Scottish regional office in Edinburgh and from there he built them up into one of the largest transportation consultants in Scotland .
6 Jenny holds me up with one arm and shouts at him .
7 If almost everybody who believes in A also believes in B — if the memes are closely ‘ linked ’ to use the genetic term — then it is convenient to lump them together as one meme .
8 When Luke moved her back towards one of the couches , she complied mindlessly , letting him pull her down with him and turning in towards him as he drew her across him , supporting her with one arm while his free hand curved round her , instinct or experience guiding him to the concealed zip of her simple dress .
9 Hands gripped her shoulders and moved her gently to one side .
10 They had not expected him back before one o'clock .
11 Nevertheless , I helped him out with one scene where this Danish prince sends his betrothed Ophelia mad .
12 Dozens of journalists blocked his path , almost knocking him over at one stage , and firing non-stop questions at him .
13 As the music came to a thundering climax , Damian bent her back over one arm , his tough face very close to hers .
14 After a couple of hours , peel it off in one layer and scrub the wood thoroughly with water and a stiff brush .
15 Took it in part exchange last week and I 've got a buyer coming Wednesday so I want it back in one piece .
16 If you 're going to sum it up in one word ?
17 They put them up to one eight six and then they brought them
18 What we did at that point , was to get together a task force of people to examine the idea and where it was going : the people doing the work and the people who were likely to understand the most likely market — put them together in one room to reason their way through to the fact that we really ought to drop the project .
19 if they 'd keep for Christmas that 's why they charged so much for them , those Mackintosh reds and that , and I mean it told you then in one of those magazines that were , John was reading that he said make sure that you wash those apples before you eat them .
20 ‘ I 'll make sure that I 'll bring her back in one piece , ’ André was saying , but Piers had turned away and gave no indication of having heard what was being said to him .
21 She was always seeking him out for one of her little chats .
22 Somewhere they 've got a , there 's a picture of him and I 've named him out of one of the photos I brought over .
23 I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers .
24 I 've seen her in about one programme in the last five years
25 Yeah , Joyce has turned it down to one
26 She had done it alone without one of her brothers to defend her !
27 He lifted his head and put it slightly to one side to listen better .
28 The controller mistakenly put it in for one hour ( we had n't crossed our seven as they do in French ) , which caused the authorities to send out a search-and-rescue helicopter for us .
29 As I turned , my shoulder struck the pole , pushing it sharply to one side and knocking him off-balance .
30 You can bring it off in one step with 99 per cent purity . ’
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