Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] in one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not anti-drink , I 'm anti the abuse of drink and the hassle that it causes , ’ he told me during an interview carried out in one of the three plush hotels he owns . |
| 2 | Erm , he was , on the first and second day , he was second in class and sixty fifth over all and then he was , the next day he was sec still second in class and fifty fifth over all and then once the prop shaft or something 's broken , yeah I 've got a spare one , but the car came back in one bit so erm , he 's got an interview with T V S next week I think or the week after because erm when Rob lent him something that erm , did his , did a lot of it 's nothing to do with erm , they sponsored him two thousand pounds |
| 3 | Then , as she watched , a light came on in one of the upper rooms , and she shifted uneasily as she recognised Luke as he came to the window and looked out . |
| 4 | Fighting broke out in one of the markets , two people were stabbed and a third sprained his ankle when a stall of onions collapsed . |
| 5 | The pool is complete with three water buffaloes whose hooves help to open up the pools and to spread the fern spores — an ecological niche summed up in one telling image . |
| 6 | At about 6 o'clock , a light snapped on in one of the huts . |
| 7 | The Greeks may have called the angle the sun moved through in one day 1° , which is unc of a full turn … |
| 8 | our lunch packed up in one |
| 9 | That 's the equivalent amount of time that is spent in the average household washing up in one year . |
| 10 | I used to love the letters page but now it gets a bit bogged down in one debate — make it a bit longer and keep the ‘ one-off ’ letters/comments . |
| 11 | At this point the first disturbance broke out in one of the galleries , with groups of men and women starting to chant " Fascism means murder : Down with Mosley " . |
| 12 | The truth is anyone 's guess , but Weller certainly offered to play on Raw Stylus ' single ‘ Pushin' Against The Flow ’ , and their name cropped up in one of the few recent interviews given by the former Cappuccino Kid . |
| 13 | If you are a professional grower , this bud is merely one among thousands , and you will not have the time to fuss and mollycoddle it — the head comes off in one go , and the bud has to take it full blast . |
| 14 | William Shirer , the CBS correspondent in Berlin , attended the Rundfunk party , finding a big Christmas tree set up in one of the offices , where ‘ the people were dancing and making merry with champagne … . |
| 15 | He thought about his family , far away in Mali 's dusty savannah , eating the evening meal with the television switched on in one corner . |
| 16 | If all you want is a simple page of text run out in one of the standard LaserWriter fonts then any of the bureau should be able to manage that without any difficulty at all — if they ca n't then they probably wo n't last long in the business . |
| 17 | It was undoubtedly unusual — and normally disadvantageous — for any ruler brought up in one country to rule over another , very different , one . |
| 18 | But as the walls of protectionism tumble down in one Third World country after another , under the influence of the World Bank , GATT etc. , externally-determined demand becomes more difficult to ignore . |
| 19 | Suppose a system starts out in one of the small number of ordered states . |
| 20 | Mr Wilson soon had the situation under control , however , and managed to get the whole school lining up in one of the four corridor approaches to the sports hall . |
| 21 | ‘ We now have this ludicrous situation where if a fire broke out in one end of a particular street in Prestatyn , Rhyl fire engines will go to it and if it breaks out in the other end of the street Prestatyn will go to it , ’ added Coun Edwards . |