Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clara B seems to live in fear of me appearing on there one evening . |
| 2 | Japan will take America by surprise by storming in early one morning and buying Pearl Harbor . |
| 3 | ’ … so pro rata , even by our own romantic criteria for singling out just one girl from the hundred we meet , there must be at least fifteen million members of the opposite sex in the world who would make an ideal mate ! … |
| 4 | Such bad habits include the horse refusing to stand still while someone is trying to mount it , or the horse cantering on only one lead . |
| 5 | And then , very very slowly , so slowly she could hardly see it happening , the glass began to lean backwards , farther and farther and farther backwards until it was balancing on just one edge of its base . |
| 6 | You 're going round clockwise one way and anticlockwise the other . |
| 7 | It 's because we are not flying in just one direction . |
| 8 | Has that come up in your er in your well we were coming back there one night from my aunt 's and er there were quite a lot of policemen about and I was only a little boy , it was before the First World War and my father said to one of these policemen , what 's happening so , oh we had a tip-off he says that er there 's these Whirly Gang folks and in the morning we saw somebody 'd been maimed or killed , but er that was another bit of interesting news around , and I remember down in Caldmore one day there used to be some ladies who used to come from , well they used to be , one of them used to call them the salt ladies , they used to come with blocks of salt on a , on a I think they used to come from and I saw a horse there as a kid and I , it had got a long gash right across its body and I said to this lady I said , what 's happened to this , she said oh the Whirly Gang and er I was in Paris in nineteen twenty two and er we got to this hotel and there was another Englishman on this trip and he said to me he said where do you come from ? |
| 9 | =ime of relentless violence in the province as the I R A continues its killings , Loyalist paramilitaries have also been carrying out almost one attack a day . |
| 10 | The hunter who strikes down a wild peccary with a blowgun dart is participating in only one aspect of this process , and the critical role is played by the ruwang . |
| 11 | Instead of trying out just one hypothesis at a time , a breadth-first approach retains a number of possible hypotheses . |
| 12 | The same was true of market produce ; some growers concentrating on just one crop so that ‘ whole tracts , like large arable fields , were sown with only cabbages or asparagus ’ , and he also appreciated the local economy in forcing asparagus through the necks of broken bottles . |