Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All furnishings can also be altered by changing the colour , or using one of the many fill patterns shown along the top of the screen . |
| 2 | by writing for information , or attending one of the school 's open days . |
| 3 | Emma , you were smiling or grimacing one of the two ! |
| 4 | And then , almost as if he had received some secret signal , he gave a slight nod of his head , grinning sardonically down at her for a moment before rolling off her body and gathering one of the twins up in his arms . |
| 5 | Here is conscientious Boris Nikolayevich , completing his graduate dissertation in one month rather than the usual five and then refusing the automatic promotion for which this would normally have qualified him , resolving instead to spend a year laying bricks , mixing concrete and becoming one of the boys . |
| 6 | Lord Cranborne , son of the sixth Marquess of Salisbury , had sat for the family constituency of south Dorset for eight years : his grandfather , ‘ Bobbety ’ the fifth Marquess , had served eleven and a half years as an MP before joining the peerage and becoming one of the most influential party men in the fifties . |
| 7 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
| 8 | From 1651 he worked from the Bell in St Paul 's Churchyard , developing a prosperous partnership with James Allestry , and becoming one of the most prominent booksellers of Restoration London . |
| 9 | ‘ I mean , look at this one , ’ said the interviewer , becoming quite indignant and picking one of the schools ' letters contemptuously from the pile . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's trapped … and facing one of the toughest weeks of his life ’ |
| 11 | Coupled to a portable computer and running one of the new generation presentation graphics programs they make a powerful presentation aid for all but the biggest of occasions . |
| 12 | The baby 's father , who was the man called Martin , was sitting a little way off on a deckchair , chewing an unlit pipe , and reading one of the Sunday papers . |
| 13 | The unprovoked action sparked off what was to become a national emergency , lasting up to 1960 and involving one of the most hard-fought jungle campaigns of this century . |
| 14 | Down the edge of one page , adjoining a big picture of Markova and Dolin in Giselle , is a series of pictures showing John clowning with a length of gauze , as if burlesquing one of the Wilis in that ballet . |
| 15 | Around 1839 the family moved to Coniston where , in 1840 , he obtained a start at the copper mine doing sundry or day work and renting one of the mine cottages . |
| 16 | Lovingly , as if repeating one of the poems she had learnt as a girl , and never forgotten , she crooned to herself the doctor 's words , ‘ Nothing to worry about , Mrs Mallory . |
| 17 | Your mouth stays beautiful when you 're lying , ’ he quipped drily , closing the door and clicking one of the locks . |
| 18 | There is a tendency to regard mains water as pure and to keep this for special purposes while using one of the other supplies for , say , bulk-washing on the assumption that it is less pure ; this may not always be true . |
| 19 | The afterlife was imagined as continuing an existence on earth , as becoming one of the imperishable starts , as travelling through the Underworld with Osiris , a realm to which Re brought light and joy at night . |
| 20 | Although it is true , as Charles Muscatine has recently pointed out , that it is inappropriate and impossible to seek to classify fabliaux in toto as representing one of the styles of Latin rhetoric recognized in the medieval schools — humilis , medius or gravis : low , middle or high — fabliau authors can call up such a range of styles for good local effect . |
| 21 | From the discussion of epistemology and pedagogy above , we may think of teacher perspectives as entailing one of the following ideal-type attitudes : |
| 22 | A museum described as containing one of the finest collections of modern art of its kind is threatened with closure because of council cutbacks . |
| 23 | In Byelorussia , which was widely regarded as retaining one of the most conservative republican leaderships , it had been decided to allocate a quota of reserved Supreme Soviet seats for official organizations ( a practice applied in the March 1989 elections to the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies but since labelled undemocratic and abandoned for national elections — see p. 36978 ) . |
| 24 | But it will certainly be remembered as having one of the most exciting finishes for years . |
| 25 | He was widely regarded as having one of the most brilliant minds in the Royal Navy . |
| 26 | Thailand has been criticised as having one of the world 's worst records in the illegal wildlife trade . |
| 27 | When choosing one of the many pocket field guides around , make sure any illustrations actually look to you like the birds they 're supposed to depict . |
| 28 | Bob Jones , managing director of Sonix , sees the product launch as dispelling one of the main criticisms of V.32terbo — that by the time products got to market , the V.fast CCITT standard would be fully defined , and conformant products would be available . |
| 29 | It had asked itself the wrong question when interpreting one of the ‘ X ’ questions in the empowering statute . |
| 30 | The remainder was intended for Bibles , Prayer Books and ‘ … other books of piety ’ , as well as putting one of the most hopeful of poor persons from each school to some trade , calling or honest employment . |