Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling unable to see just then how Cara , even with her journalistic experience , would have fared better with a man who , somehow without you noticing , turned every question or countered it with one of his own , Fabia resolved , as Lubor Ondrus turned into a driveway and steered the Skoda uphill , to do better . |
| 2 | Now he staggered towards Holly , making a path between the tables and benches and the backs of sitting men that flanked him on one side , and the waiting line on the other . |
| 3 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 4 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 5 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 6 | On one occasion Clara 's class purchased a pound of sausages , took them in with them , and roasted them on one of the burners , and ate them , in full scent and in fairly good view ; Mrs Hill appeared not to notice , and talked quietly on of Boyle 's law . |
| 7 | She took her hip flask from her coveralls and emptied it in one long gulp . |
| 8 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 9 | I broke off a piece of wood or whatever it is from a tree , if that 's a tree , and flung it at one of the huge pancake things like giant water-lily leaves that floated on the surface of the water . |
| 10 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 11 | Simpson called it quantum evolution and described it as one of three evolutionary modes . |
| 12 | A friend in Joan 's office was active in the Womens ' Loyalist Action Association and invited her to one of its meetings . |
| 13 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 14 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 15 | Two men appeared in front of him , and he caught her wrist and jerked her to one side , raising his sword . |
| 16 | Elizabeth Woodville turned and drew him to one side . |
| 17 | The ball bounced near Scott and he trapped it with his left foot , then swivelled and hooked it to one of the young boys with his right , smiling to himself . |
| 18 | Vass leaned back in his chair and subjected her to one of those arrogant black looks of his . |
| 19 | His brother , Tim drove a pick up similar to Simon 's and parked it in one of Banbury 's main car parks . |
| 20 | Stephanie picked Mary up — Mary liked to be picked up — and perched her on one hip as she walked from bed to bed . |
| 21 | He lifted her up and perched her on one of the kitchen stools , then filled the kettle . |
| 22 | A shift in viewpoint , not in technology , totally changed the economics of ocean shipping and turned it into one of the major growth industries of the last 20 to 30 years . |
| 23 | Jane Melvin came to the New Inn at Pembridge in Herefordshire in 1984 , and turned it into one of the most popular country pubs in the county . |
| 24 | He took off the phoney glasses and tweed hat and threw them to one side . |
| 25 | He peeled it off and threw it to one side then sat facing the three Americans . |
| 26 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 27 | She took some gravel off the top of the pill-box and threw it through one of the slits . |
| 28 | Pete took his jacket off , and hung it on one of the bookcase doorknobs . |
| 29 | He wadded the money up tight and shoved it into one of the pouches on his Sam Browne belt . |
| 30 | In 1733 , the Apothecaries erected a marble statue by Rysbrack to their most generous benefactor and placed it in one of the rooms of the orange house , but in 1748 it was moved to the centre of the garden , where a replica stands today . |