Example sentences of "one [noun sg] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one stride he crossed the bar , and had the young man 's collar in one hand , the other knotted into a fist beneath his jaw . |
| 2 | Tilting it to one side he allowed the object to clatter onto the table . |
| 3 | Well there 's one lad he driving the waggon er he works for another branch of them it just the haulage whatsit . |
| 4 | At one point he drove the wrong way through a contra-flow system . |
| 5 | At one point he overheard the star laughing and saying , ‘ Long time since I 've done theatre . |
| 6 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 7 | At one point he rephrases the central dilemma of innovation and in so doing he implies that the most important characteristic of a school 's internal organisation is a ‘ collaborative professional relationship ’ among teachers . |
| 8 | At one place he described the statement ‘ physics has higher verisimilitude than astrology ’ as plausible and asks why it should not be accepted as long as no serious alternative is offered . |
| 9 | Not surprisingly Cautinus was terrified of Chramn , and on one occasion he abandoned the annual pilgrimage from Clermont to Brioude , because he thought that the prince 's men were pursuing him . |
| 10 | At one station he entered the coach directly behind the engine , only to be summarily ejected by the guard . |
| 11 | Instead , by the age of 15 , he was wasting his money endlessly playing computer games , until one day he discovered the Yellow Magic Orchestra , and then Kraftwerk , and then Asian music and various ethnic musics ( ‘ Sounded like techno to me , ’ he mutters ) . |
| 12 | One day he took the afternoon off without telling anyone . |
| 13 | But one day he made the mistake , at least from his point of view , of bringing along a few tapes of his favourite soul and reggae music . |
| 14 | Then one day he heard the birds making a frightful racket and this huge magpie flew out of the tree . |
| 15 | One day he remembered the hen chaffinch thought |
| 16 | > In one sense he accepts the world of the stage , in another he denies it . |
| 17 | So they got him settled in the bottom of the boat and just as they were putting this tarpaulin over him , and getting ready to set off , the one man He heard the one man saying to the other , he says , Right , forty miles a wee stroke of the oars . |
| 18 | For one thing he carries the story of Jesus back far beyond the baptism to his very conception . |
| 19 | This is erm Nick and I said that erm it 's rather confusing here because on the one hand he represents the American dream boy because he 's young , he 's beautiful , he 's got his future ahead of him . |
| 20 | Dangling from one hand he carried the object he had brought from the corpse-strewn forecourt of the gas station . |
| 21 | With one hand he removed the hay and with the other held her shoulder , then tried stuffing the wisps down the front of her laced bodice . |
| 22 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 23 | With one hand he grasped the string handle of the carrier-bag with the Union Jack on it . |
| 24 | Firing the bolter with one hand he waved the sizzling power sword frantically in front of his face as if fanning wasps away . |
| 25 | With one hand he pushed the boy away from him , and with the other he tore off his horned hood and hauled at the tight collar of his scaly costume . |
| 26 | At one stage he turned the car round and rammed a following police car , nudging it aside . |