Example sentences of "[noun pl] one [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no sense of give and take ; no idea of the concessions one made for the sake of social comfort . |
| 2 | Floor boards and furniture tend to follow the humidity and this is the reason for the ghostly noises one hears in the house at night . |
| 3 | This match was not just a game , it was a landmark and to all intents and purposes one ignored by the BBC . |
| 4 | If one asks the further question , were the King 's actions wise ? , one 's answer is likely to be all too heavily conditioned by hindsight , by the views one takes of the later politics of the 1930s , of the restoration of a two-party system , and of the decline of the Liberal Party . |
| 5 | Ophioprium was defined as follows : hidden radial shields ; large tentacle pores armed by two or more tentacle scales one attached to the lateral arm plate the other to the ventral arm plate ; numerous oral papillae forming a continuous series with long slender spinelets which are associated with the second oral tentacle pore . |
| 6 | Things one reads in the press ! |
| 7 | The snow-light filling the house with magic as the white flakes drifted down in the windless silence , the splendour where the sun came out and the hills and fields and trees sparkled under the arc of blue sky , the thought of the things one did in the snow , tobogganing and snowballing , and building a snowman : it was all ecstasy . |
| 8 | Through these arguments one arrives at the position that the use of ROI need not be so harmful as academic accountants ( including me in the early 1970s ! ) and more recently academics from other fields have argued it to be . |
| 9 | Well you know how the , those gutters one sits on the other at the joint do n't they , and they used to fill it with er putty did n't they and |
| 10 | Neither has a sylph-like figure , and in their love-duet in Act II they resembled the engravings one sees of the singers of a century ago . |
| 11 | The morals one finds at the end of the fabliaux are generally relevant at least in part to the tales that have been told , and on the whole appear ironic only in the sense of the contrast between the worldly-wise , pragmatic and cynical counselling they most frequently offer and the idealistic norms of Christian moralizing that the reader is otherwise prepared for . |
| 12 | When we have a hypothesis about the causal relationship between variables , this can be conveyed by which of the proportions one uses in the analysis . |
| 13 | He looked like one of those Irish rebels whose photographs one saw in the papers : swarthy , intense , indifferent to any opinion but their own . |
| 14 | Firstly , the marks one sees in the ground at any particular level may in fact result from many successive building phases , since the holes will commonly have been dug through earlier material and to varying depths . |