Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] on one " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pick up on one idea at a time , and we try each of these as a group . |
| 2 | trying to get through the , he says oh them people have left here , now you 'll have to , and he gives us another two numbers and that , I got through on one of the numbers and then er , I asked I says oh I says I did n't get me photograph and me plastic wallet , he says well you do n't really need them you know when you retired , but I says how can you go on the train , you sure of that ? |
| 3 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 4 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 5 | Two months before the murder of Sir Danvers Carew I went out on one of my evil adventures . |
| 6 | Yes can I come back on one or two points there . |
| 7 | " Watch that one , " they said as I sat down on one of the armchairs , " the seat falls through . " |
| 8 | Happily , at the time of going to print the craze is dying a death , as consumers realise that £500 is a lot to pay for something you carry about on one shoulder , and that as a social status symbol it is as impressive as a 1979 Cortina without wheels propped up on bricks . |
| 9 | No sooner had she sunk down on one of the chesterfields than he was hunkering down in front of her , lifting her injured foot to rest on his knee , removing the shoe and gently touching the nylon-covered flesh beneath the delicate ankle-bone . |
| 10 | She sat down on one of the red spoon-shaped chairs in the station foyer and placed her feet neatly together on the black and white tiles , staring down at the shoes Nurse Rose had so gushingly admired . |
| 11 | She sat down on one of the grey bucket seats to calm herself , to get her breath , but instead she began to cry . |
| 12 | She sat down on one of the seats , and waited for the man in the woollen hat to come up , see her , and check . |
| 13 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
| 14 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 15 | Rachel gave the girl some analgesics for her pain , persuaded her to lie down on one of the beds then pulled the curtains around her to enable her to rest . |
| 16 | He got up on one elbow . |
| 17 | It swooped down on one of the dogs and was standing on its chest with its beak at her throat . |
| 18 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 19 | Even her voice was different and he came up on one elbow to look into her face , seeing all the fire die out of her . |
| 20 | It shows up on one of the pictures — and I think that 's the only bit of pain he got from that . ’ |
| 21 | He ducked down on one knee and said to himself , ‘ Sasaki , gambare ! |
| 22 | He went down on one knee beside the older woman . |
| 23 | Having reached the end it went up on one wing , round through 180 ° in the space of fifty metres , and plummetted out of the sky on to the tarmac . |
| 24 | ‘ Did he go down on one knee , hand on heart ? ’ |
| 25 | He leaned up on one elbow to gaze down at her and instead of Ruth feeling a rush of panic she felt incredibly calm . |
| 26 | He sat down on one of the bare wooden steps . |
| 27 | Exhausted , he sat down on one of the steps leading from the bathroom and leaned his brow against the cool wall . |
| 28 | He began to feel rather uneasy as he sat down on one of the hard , rexine-covered arm-chairs . |
| 29 | He sat down on one of the chairs and stared up at her with an accusing , plaintive face . |