Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] on one [noun sg] " 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 | Something I 've noticed from your soloing is that you 're not afraid to stay on one note . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Able to concentrate on one search at a time 1 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The remainder seem able to lie on one side or the other . |
| 9 | It was nice in an uncertain world to be able to rely on one thing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | While cleaning staff are busy working on one floor , they may suddenly need to be directed to another room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 14 | Dooling and Lachman tested memory for passages which were vague and metaphorical and consequently very difficult to interpret on one reading , particularly when the overall theme of the passage was unknown . |
| 15 | The first symphony to be recorded was Schubert 's Unfinished published on one twelve-inch disc by American Columbia in 1911 . |