Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | only going back one year . |
| 2 | Scene one is the elderly gent wearily prowling round one bookshop after another in a hopeless search for a volume on fly-fishing by J R Hartley . |
| 3 | Influence rested on the various branches of the family 's directly controlling around one quarter of the total land area . |
| 4 | Over the last few months hardly a day had gone by without his name being mentioned in the financial Press , the articles mainly commenting on the swift , ferocious manner in which he was carving his way through the City , ruthlessly gobbling up one company after another . |
| 5 | The natives roam their rather less than spectacular slopes in huge gangs , effectively blocking off one tract of mountain from the next so that foreigners spend much of their time waiting for detached companions . |
| 6 | ‘ The whiting cooked with its tail in its mouth teaches us to think all round a problem , ’ answered Auguste , lovingly poking back one tail that was sprawling over the edge of his basket . |
| 7 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |