Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [prep] one " in BNC.

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1 I noticed it especially on one occasion when I was beset with problems which had made me very unhappy .
2 Alexei 's sword blade swept round in a great circle and Rostov turned it off with one of the best parries of his life .
3 Steven threw in lots of baseball , and tinkle-plunk John Williams soundtrack , and finished it off with one enormous Big Hug .
4 He put it to his lips , hesitated , then knocked it back in one go .
5 He knocked it back in one gulp .
6 He knocked it back in one and gasped with the pleasure of it .
7 When the clerk returned he saw the letter , glanced at the door , in an attempt to see who had left it , then slotted it neatly into one of the pigeon holes behind him .
8 In the evening rush-hour a lorry had skidded into a car and jammed it up against one of the pillar-boxes outside the hospital .
9 Nigger picked up his scotch and tossed it back in one easy movement .
10 Her pencil rattled out a staccato rhythm on the desk-top , as she tossed it angrily to one side .
11 Blonde Joanne had to grin and bear it when actor boyfriend Tony Scannell , who stars as Ted in The Bill , whooped it up on one of his fun nights at Stringfellows in London .
12 And erm we 'd got like jug each and there 's about nine of us and we all took it up to one of the rooms and we drunk the lot of it and we were all like getting a bit a bit
13 ‘ I cut a picture of a model in a swimsuit out of Vogue and posted it back to one man .
14 Some water dripped from the tip of her nose into her mouth and she wiped it away with one swift movement .
15 ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’
16 Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise .
17 Compared Janet NcCalman alledged charmer and being questioned as to her using of charms confessed that she used one charm for Causing Cows bull ( called eelis dhair ) which she practices by expressing some words over water and that she gave it particularly to one NcAbhrionid in Balulise .
18 He had a good head for numbers , and recited it all the way down St Martin 's Lane and into Monmouth Street ; then he went in a shop for a coffee and wrote it down on one of the paper napkins .
19 it 's all I said no it 's not I said I paid me first er payment I said wrote it down on one of those papers
20 from Budgen 's , when erm ah , you know at Chris , Christmas they had it down at one seventy nine a pound , did n't they ?
21 At the sink he filled a cup with cold water , drank it down in one gulp , refilled it and handed it to Frankie without comment .
22 I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room .
23 Remembering her host 's clever trick of the night before , she had made a sandwich of the remaining ham and wrapped it carefully in one of her pocket handkerchiefs , placing it securely in the pocket of her pelisse .
24 He picked it up by one long back leg .
25 He set it down on one of the small tables , then handed her a paper napkin , a spoon and a fork before giving her one of the bowls .
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