Example sentences of "[vb base] one [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you start to bleed , send one of the lads around for me , OK ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Send one of the servants for Edward Morris , ’ he said , ‘ and for a solicitor , an honest one . ’ |
| 3 | I want one of the boys to run an errand for me . |
| 4 | The trees are going to be placed directly on top of the large trees on the background , since I want one of the actors to move behind them , as you will see later . |
| 5 | Fifty nine youngsters and their teachers were travelling in two coaches through the town centre when police say one of the buses ran into the back of the other . |
| 6 | So just like a family , would you do anything special , say one of the girls got married or something like that ? |
| 7 | After the elections next spring , Cambodia 's new government should take immediate steps to rein in development in the Angkor zone , and thereby preserve one of the landmarks of Eastern Medieval history . |
| 8 | It is likely that the inner core of local church laity , such as select vestry members of the Church of Ireland and presbyterian elders , provided and still provide one of the links between the material and spiritual interests of the groups in the alliance , as these laity were and are active in the business and commercial fields also . |
| 9 | In addition , the hidden advantages for the host country of other nations using its language , such as ease of commercial interaction , cultural ties etc. , are well enough known and indeed provide one of the justifications for the continuation of such institutions as the British Council . |
| 10 | Frequently the key to advance is in better ways of measuring or quantifying technical processes , or material advances which in themselves remove one of the constraints on development . |
| 11 | It would also weaken the case , the building of third runway at Heathrow and lastly it would reduce the traffic on our already overcrowded road network in the South East and hopefully remove one of the arguments for widening the M twenty five to more than four , four lanes . |
| 12 | I hope one of the outcomes of the debate will be to move the focus of penal policy away from custody . |
| 13 | Cut one of the logs in half at an angle . |
| 14 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 15 | Next door bookmaker Joe O'Brien , 45 years a member , recalls that before the 1939–45 war the club competed regularly in events throughout the North-East , with Richmond Meet one of the highlights . |
| 16 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 17 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 18 | For example , if we consider one of the stories which Thorndyke ( 1977 ) used we can see that it has a high degree of internal organisation . |
| 19 | Suppose therefore that we consider one of the alternatives : ‘ rank order ’ voting . |
| 20 | THE Belfast hills will be alive with the sound of walking boots next month as hundreds of local people enjoy one of the highlights of the province 's walking calendar . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know if you 've heard , but it rather seems that the police suspect one of the lecturers at the college of killing her , ’ said Melissa . |
| 22 | Ron Parish of AEA and Peter Elliot , right of Thwaits and Reed , clockmakers , examine one of the faces of Big Ben prior to inspection and refurbishment of its hands and associated mechanism . |
| 23 | She telephoned police and as she waited for them to arrive she noticed the same youths approach a man with two young children and drench one of the children . |
| 24 | Tiram One of the divisions of a flower calyx , five letters . |
| 25 | I do n't like the one in cans I want get one of the bottles . |
| 26 | Take him through into the private suite and get one of the stewards to look after him . |
| 27 | Get one of the stewards down here . ’ |
| 28 | You get one of the lads that works with me , if he catches three of them he says well I 'll have them for my dinner . |
| 29 | She had watched him go amongst the caskets , then lift one of the lids , peering inside . |
| 30 | I know one of the maids who works for Lady West , unfortunate girl that she is — the maid , I mean . |