Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] on one " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'm singing on one track , I think , in the background … very quietly ! |
| 2 | I think if you were to analyse what I play , I 'm landing on one of those three notes a lot , mostly on the third ; I play a lot of third-based melodies . |
| 3 | I 'm standing on one hip , propped up like a nonchalant horse on a summer 's day , making heavy work of waiting for him . |
| 4 | John was careful , but as a singer I felt with him as I were standing on one leg after my time with Walter . |
| 5 | It was the first and last time I was to fly on one of its mercy missions . |
| 6 | I was working on one side of the car and the boot lid dropped . |
| 7 | You can prove this for yourself : stand with one leg off the ground so that you are balanced on one leg , and then just close your eyes . |
| 8 | when she opened her eyes she was lying on one of the seats inside the shelter , and — horror of horrors ! — a huge crowd had collected . |
| 9 | She was lying on one of the sofas in the drawing-room . |
| 10 | Then she was dumped on one end of the table and given a dab of butter to taste , and , soon , a lump of dough to squeeze , roll into little grey spindles on the floury table-top . |
| 11 | She was sitting on one of the bentwood chairs , knees together , her hands wedged between them . |
| 12 | I du n no what we 're doing on one of them . |
| 13 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 14 | ‘ We were caught on one foot with our fingers in our mouths , ’ said one dealer , referring to widespread expectations of a hung Parliament . |
| 15 | Instead , they are based on one vital surface protein — the hepatitis B surface agglutinin ( HbsAg ) — taken either from the blood of carriers of the virus , or from bacteria genetically engineered to produce it . |
| 16 | Over three hundred individuals give their time freely to support the R Y A where they are experienced on one central committee or another . |
| 17 | The three of them were going on one of their rare holidays abroad . |
| 18 | Nor can generalised criticism be justified if it is based on one isolated incident . |
| 19 | But it is bulky as it is printed on one side of the page only . |
| 20 | He 's sold his private jet ; he 's focussing on one job ; winning the world crown . |
| 21 | It was dented on one side . |
| 22 | It was flanked on one side by a great domed hall , supported on a quadrant of megalithic arches , each one at least twelve feet thick ; to its side the palace wall rose upwards with a colossal , almost Romanesque massiveness . |
| 23 | He was acquitted on one count . |
| 24 | His co-defendant , Frank " Frankie Locs " Locascio , was also convicted of murder and racketeering , although he was acquitted on one count of illegal gambling . |
| 25 | Although he was acquitted on one count of assault and another of filing a false police report , the jury had been unable to reach a decision on the charge that Powell had abused his authority through the use of excessive force . |
| 26 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 27 | He was propped on one elbow beside her , the width of the picnic hamper giving her an illusion of safety from too close an intimacy . |
| 28 | He was sitting on one of the kitchen counters , paws folded , tail tucked up , gazing with stately patience at the larger door . |