Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am virtually unemployable as I am rarely in one place for more than two weeks . |
| 2 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 3 | Here I am all in one piece if tiny pock-marked from a flying bottle , and trying to settle down and see the war out without firing a shot . |
| 4 | P. , B. and D. are together with one family , T. and A. were initially together although A. has since had to be moved to a small children 's home , and K. is with a third family . |
| 5 | I am not for one moment suggesting that you could do such a thing yourself because I think you would do it with more style and use a magnum of champagne . |
| 6 | These visits are generally about one week long which gives the employee and spouse a reasonable length of time to find accommodation and get a feel for the country . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , all the farmer 's eggs are not in one basket and there is a much better mix of crops and livestock . |
| 8 | You 're still in one piece . |
| 9 | ‘ I reckon they 'll just be relieved to see you 're still in one piece . ’ |
| 10 | Well , you look as though you 're still in one piece after the interrogation , ’ she remarked . |
| 11 | They 're there for one reason and one reason only I know , cos I 've been involved in fox hunting , I 've shot and fished but I 'll tell you something , was also trained to hunt humans , going back many years ago , when I was in the Falkland Islands training for the event that happened eventually . |
| 12 | ‘ How will you ever meet a prospective father for your children if you 're never in one place for more than a week or two ? ’ |
| 13 | Is it not possible that we apprehend them as feelings of hotness and coldness because the feelings are usually of one sort when our bodies are hot , and of another sort when our bodies are cold ? |
| 14 | To mention only the most general one , the non-causal connections asserted within science are of many diverse kinds , and they are usually in one way or another partial . |
| 15 | The bales that are still in one piece are piled on to a wagon as they are brought in . |
| 16 | She had re-established contact with her friends and had been out on one occasion in the previous week . |
| 17 | If you look back at any year you only get ten or 20 good records and they 're not likely to be all in one week . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I seem to be all in one piece , Nurse — sorry , Sister . |
| 19 | But it 's good to be all in one piece again . ’ |
| 20 | But then they had realized that that would mean their Dad was all alone and so they had prayed again , that they could all be together in one place or the other . |
| 21 | One dog might be enough for one man , but others like more . ’ |
| 22 | ( b ) Do n't try to teach more than two linguistic items at the same time , eg the present continuous tense plus vocabulary concerned with the post office would be enough for one period . |
| 23 | Although collective property auctions take place regularly in London ( often primarily for investors rather than house-hunters ) , in country areas the more typical auction will be just for one house , and as likely as not will take place in a nearby pub or village hall . |
| 24 | Objects directly in front of the subject appear to be off to one side . |
| 25 | After adaptation , things that initially appeared to be off to one side appear directly ahead again . |
| 26 | The incubation period may be up to one year , and this makes it difficult in many cases to decide from whom the warts have been caught ; not only that , but they often seem to have been seeded on the principle adhered to by market gardeners , to give successive crops over a long period . |
| 27 | There are 2 to 4 pointed appressed arm spines the longest may be up to one segment in length . |
| 28 | I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval . |
| 29 | Then she told him calmly , shifting her gaze slightly , ‘ I can assure you I 'm here for one reason and for one reason only … in order to help your cousin with her English . ’ |
| 30 | We have fifty US Marines at the US Embassy , and they can be here in one hour from now . |