Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't bet against him getting just one against United and burying it . ’ |
| 2 | In the mirror she saw him slide open one of his drawers , checking that his suspicion was correct , that the contents of the drawers had become the contents of the packed bag . |
| 3 | When he said " Give us free speech " in the first number of The Polar Star , he made plain one of the two main things which Russia lacked . |
| 4 | He shared only one of his father 's gifts : he was a mighty warrior . |
| 5 | He drew back one of the chairs and proceeded to seat himself at the table opposite her . |
| 6 | He described how one of the monks , Brother Camille Mabilais , hid retreating British airmen who failed to make their way to the boats at Dunkirk . |
| 7 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 8 | He describes how one of Eadwine 's sons , Osfrith , perished with his father and another , Eadfrith , surrendered to Penda , while the queen , accompanied by Paulinus , took flight for Kent with her daughter , Eanflaed , and her young son , Uscfrea , and Osfrith 's young son , Yffi . |
| 9 | He ripped open one of the little silver foil packets and handed her the lubricated ring of rubber . |
| 10 | Receiving a faint beeping from the probe , he threw aside one of the hangings to reveal the strange arrangement of wheels , rods and mirrored lenses that was concealed in the alcove behind it . |
| 11 | Dougal reached for it so quickly that he knocked over one of his candles . |
| 12 | Yet in February 1990 he pulled off one of cricket 's all-time miracles . |
| 13 | Then when we went on the train to Italy and all the way through France and Switzerland he chatted up one of the Marias , and when I tipped his minestrone soup over his head on Milan station he said : ‘ You 'll have to excuse my wife , she 's just an ignorant peasant . ’ |
| 14 | After a while , he took out one of his father 's old police notebooks and started to draw aeroplanes . |
| 15 | Nothing on the radio attracted him so , as a measure against boredom he took out one of the hard mints he always carries and , being a far from self-indulgent character he broke the mint sharply in half intending to eat it slowly . |
| 16 | He sent back one of the party to retrieve the proper tin , but no sooner had this poor unfortunate reached the crater rim than the volcano blew up in his face . |
| 17 | Initially he saw only one of the hideous creatures , but more of the demons appeared out of the darkness , loping into the alley . |
| 18 | His grandsons remembered him as a very old man , fond of reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica and so failing in his memory that , when he dozed over one of the volumes , the boys would turn over several pages and he never noticed but read on from there when he woke up . |
| 19 | He flipped just one of the bolts in a casual way and strode off towards the farmhouse across the Paddock . |
| 20 | He converted only one of six break point opportunities against the 25-year-old lefthander . |
| 21 | Has he signed up one of the most formidable Arabs to ride for his expanding pro team ? |
| 22 | He had then one of his occasional flashes of utter brilliance . |
| 23 | However , as soon as he struck off one of its heads another two shot up in its place . |
| 24 | It grates between his teeth and last year he chipped off one of his fillings . |
| 25 | After qualifying , he settled at Bath , where he set up one of the first acute psychiatric units in a general hospital in the country . |
| 26 | Proper proof , of course , would catapult Mr Winchester into the company of ponderous scholars ; one suspects that he ( and his readers ) would be happier if he remained simply one of literature 's best travel writers . |
| 27 | But he remained only one of three competitors for the leadership of the loyalists . |
| 28 | He picked up one of his Dad 's cups and read the inscription . |
| 29 | One day he picked up one of the elongated putters used to such devastating effect on the fabulously rich US Seniors ' Tour by such as Orville Moody , a notoriously fragile performer on the greens until he turned 50 . |
| 30 | With a swift movement he picked up one of the Lal Khals and kissed it on its head . |