Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] on one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm — I 'm sorry , ’ Chesarynth said automatically , trying to look as though it were normal to stand on one leg with her skirt round her knees . |
| 2 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 3 | Something I 've noticed from your soloing is that you 're not afraid to stay on one note . |
| 4 | But all that depends on one person ! |
| 5 | If it seems too much to see on one visit , remember there 's no law that says you ca n't come back to Brighton & Hove time and time again . |
| 6 | There was too much riding on one man . |
| 7 | It 's reversible , using Polartec 100 fleece on one side and a microfibre Pertex shell on the other . |
| 8 | They all agreed on one thing , however . |
| 9 | The first team to all sit on one chair . |
| 10 | Er and therefore the the overall effect is a more of spreading the traffic than simply it all appearing on one route . |
| 11 | And er the fire was underneath this you see in a little grate and you used to open the door and stoke it up and er more often than not it was fired by slack , which was a residue of the coal out of the coal house , you know when you broke your coal up with the lumps the the little sl bits of slack they were all put on one side for the copper fire . |
| 12 | ‘ Those were all done on one roll of film ’ he explained , ‘ Because they had to be instantaneous and I knew if I went back again , it would not be the same . |
| 13 | The Radio 4 mix on one frequency and news-based programmes on the other . |
| 14 | Assemble edits are made much easier if the camera-originals are all shot on one cassette . |
| 15 | We all depend on one biosphere for sustaining our lives . |
| 16 | ‘ Right then , ’ Mr Grovey bellowed , ‘ I 'll call out an instruction like this ; ‘ Let's all hop on one leg , ’ OK ? . |
| 17 | Why should the price of the good established on one island ever be any different from the price of the good established on any other island ? |
| 18 | Our cask-conditioned party could all agree on one thing , we 'd love to be on board the Champagne Express when it sets fullsteam-ahead for Reims this August . |
| 19 | We all sat on one side of the table and the Secretary of State sat on the other . |
| 20 | ‘ The system works through eight black boxes , each focusing on one colour harmony , ’ explains Lorna , who bought her franchise 18 months ago for £10,000 ( plus VAT ) . |
| 21 | Able to concentrate on one search at a time 1 |
| 22 | When I returned to the palace with my boxes , I was able to stand on one box on one side of the wall and step on to the other box on the other side . |
| 23 | Habits and patterns of work can become more disorganized : people may be unable to focus on one task because all the other things to be done keep crowding in ; at the end of a very busy day little seems to have been accomplished . |
| 24 | Er I remember one I remember one demonstration , we were able to er we were e employed you see , er we we did n't we did n't participate in the er in a national march , but what we were able to do on one occasion was er to raise enough money for one or two of us , for to er go to London by the train , and er be in Hyde Park when er the er the various contingents from e er from various areas er of London , marched er marched into er marched into Hyde Park . |
| 25 | The remainder seem able to lie on one side or the other . |
| 26 | It does not appear that the members of the Liturgical Commission had any great regard for the cult ; King Charles I appeared on one list of those to be commemorated but was dropped in the next . |
| 27 | It was nice in an uncertain world to be able to rely on one thing . |
| 28 | We find it 's also useful back information , because they will be able to act on one client and has applications for proposal we are writing for another client later on so we can use as references refer to this information . |
| 29 | While cleaning staff are busy working on one floor , they may suddenly need to be directed to another room . |
| 30 | The houses gave way to shops and the slope levelled off , then he was in a narrow main street where it was easily possible to hop on one leg from one gift shop to the next … all of them closed until Easter . |