Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] one [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Because I am married , you see , mama had my governess explain to me about marriage — of what is expected of one in the marriage bed . ’
2 Well the new one was the new one was we looked at one in the gas
3 The rise in the share of fixed investment , from 19 per cent of GDP in 1955 to 33 per cent in 1961 , was paralleled by one in the share of ( pre-tax ) gross profit incomes , up from 31 to 39 per cent .
4 Sheikha Grandmother , whom she wanted to visit , was a renowned figure , but such a trip would not be made for one outside the tribe circle .
5 If buckets are used to fill the pool , they can be counted and discussions about empty and full will develop as water is transferred from one to the other .
6 Several doors ran off it , two now open as prisoners were being moved from one to the other .
7 Matched by one on the suspect print .
8 Three days later he was confiding to his diary that the night bombardment made him ‘ think of that nightmare room of Edgar Allan Poe , in which the walls closed in one after the other . ’
9 Since the Ffestiniog bid to take over the moribund Welsh Highland company in a High Court action various schemes have been mooted including one by the FR to re-open the Welsh Highland from the north end and the long cherished target of taking the line through to within yards of the tourist attraction , Caernarfon Castle .
10 The New Zealand company earmarked three jobs for each lamb carcass , compared with one in the UK .
11 From 21 March 1988 , this future was replaced by one on the Value Line Arithmetic index , which is the arithmetic equivalent of the VLCI .
12 Perhaps the oddest feature connected with the cemeteries is that no evidence has ever been found for one outside the East Gate .
13 RICHMOND Golf Club produced a remarkable family double when Peter Hughes and his son both holed in one on the same day .
14 Before the war , foods such as butter and cheese were given two layers of wrappers by the counter hand , but this was reduced to one under the restrictions .
15 The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king .
16 When the same species was found occupying two separate territories , it made more sense to work out how it could have migrated from one to the other than to assume that it had been created independently in each area .
17 Convinced that education was the prime path to political formation , he became a schoolmaster and , although his socialism made it hard to find a place , he was appointed to one by the Govan school board .
18 As part of its expansion , Barratt will open two new subsidiaries a year over the three years of the growth plan , starting in July with one for south London , to be followed by one for the northern part of the capital later .
19 For December 14th 1804 he writes : ‘ finished the three drawings for Mr. Knowlys — Mrs. Green delivered of a dead daughter the child full grown ’ , and on January 23rd 1808 he wrote tersely ‘ My wife was delivered about one in the day of a daughter . ’
20 She did n't know any of the names ; she smiled and shook hands and was passed from one to the other like a parcel .
21 Having prepared the solution of label , place a drop of it in the manipulation chamber or dish , sufficiently far away from the drop of medium in which the injections will be carried out , to prevent the two coalescing when the injection pipette is passed from one to the other .
22 As Thomas Reid remarked , in a passage that could be mistaken for one by the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin :
23 They spent the evening trying them in different places and ended with one in the hall and one in the window seat in the winter parlour .
24 Hence the need to explore any avenue that will provide a variety of services in order to allay the second fear about specialism — that the service will become labelled as one for the poor only .
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