Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] with one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have three or four : two black Strats , a Les Paul Junior with a neck-through-body — really heavy guitar , sustains really well — a Flying V that they built me with one pickup — neck-through-body also — and a regular Flying V. ’ |
| 2 | She shrivelled him with one glance . |
| 3 | In fact , she dismissed it with one word — ‘ rubbish ’ — but we 'd just started the show when there was a loud bang . |
| 4 | She set it down on the kitchen table , stroked it with one finger . |
| 5 | No erm as I say , I never saw her in there erm I looked under the bed saw nothing was there , I just dropped it with one hand . |
| 6 | The bright April sun was full in her eyes and she shaded them with one hand . |
| 7 | He then grabbed me with one hand and grabbed my steering wheel with the other . |
| 8 | The soldier was able to pick out his target in Copperfield Street from a distance of several hundred yards — and hit it with one shot . |
| 9 | Then Emmie helped him out of the skip and along the railway ; he clutched her with one hand and held Murgatroyd with the other . |
| 10 | Whitlock , sensing his moment , swung round and felled him with one punch . |
| 11 | Connon read it with one sweep of the eyes . |
| 12 | She gave a tiny giggle as a little dollop of cream adhered to the tip of her nose ; she removed it with one finger , licked the pinky , then wiped her nose with her napkin , glancing round the restaurant through the confusing topography of slats and uprights of the seats and screens , apparently worried that this minor lapse in hand-mouth coordination was being critically observed by any of the surrounding middle-class matrons , perhaps with a view to passing on the scandalous morsel to their opposite numbers in Gallanach and having mother black-balled from the local bridge club . |
| 13 | He claimed one Bf109 shot down , but recorded of his own aircraft in his logbook : ‘ Left me with one strand of rudder wire . ’ |
| 14 | Phil slurped his with one gulp . |
| 15 | I held him with one arm and the other lay between him and the small bump that was the baby . |
| 16 | He steadied it with one hand whilst with the other he slammed the doors , then holding the handle of the basket , he tottered away . |
| 17 | She held it with one hand while the other went to her throat , as Nellie 's face appeared at the door . |
| 18 | She rested the child she was carrying on the parapet , the child being asleep , and held it with one hand as she used the other to search at her breast purse for her money . |