Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] on one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 2 | Ecstatic , the boy tried on one mask after another , roaring like a lion or mewing like a cat . |
| 3 | Note that the Middlesex Crown Court case of Langham v Crisp [ 1975 ] Crim LR 652 where a motorist parked on one side of the road and an obstruction was caused by the subsequent parking of cars opposite . |
| 4 | When a constable knocked on one door , at the extreme end of the street , he heard the distant yapping of a dog , but no one came to the door . |
| 5 | And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side . |
| 6 | A motorcycle jacket and a vivid red helmet lay on one end of the small dining table . |
| 7 | Another woman stood on one leg by the window and stared at her . |
| 8 | Creed stared out of the window , his chin cushioned on one hand , his eyes doubly concealed , first by the tinted windows of the car , then by his sunglasses . |
| 9 | The church stood on one side of the narrow street , a lovely old building of dark grey stone , and opposite it was the Vicarage , a tumbledown house which in summer would be completely hidden by tall trees . |
| 10 | After a brief description of the nature of the school and the order the staff attempt to impose , Stewart Butterfield lets the diaries speak for themselves of the way this order appeared on one day . |
| 11 | There were no houses in sight : the wooded mountain rose on one side of the old railway track and fell steeply away on the other . |
| 12 | Face turned on one arm , she risked a glance along the muscular length of the body stretched a couple of feet away from her , the briefest black trunks accentuating the dusky , even tan of his skin . |