Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One involves throwing a ball for a player to head while another one hurls a medicine ball into his back ! |
| 2 | One longs to give a copy each to ten assorted bus company managers ( leavened with the occasional politician and academic ) and make them wait on a cold dark wet night in a vandalised bus shelter for an unpredictable R registered banger . |
| 3 | 1982 ) ; to describe the Quileute demonstratives one needs to make a distinction between objects visible and not visible to the speaker ( Anderson & Keenan , in press ) ; and so on . |
| 4 | It may sound strange to be pleased to discover that one has made a mistake , but it is , in fact , one of the most exciting things for a social scientist to discover — one really feels that one has found out something that went beyond what one might have expected through ‘ common sense ’ reasoning ! |
| 5 | But the real wonder of pop biopics is that no one has made a movie about Jim Morrison before now ( The Doors opens on March 15 ) . |
| 6 | No one has seen a mountain goat killed in this way , but in Europe , golden eagles regularly knock chamois from cliff ledges in order to feed on their carcasses . |
| 7 | On top of this , no one has developed a way of controlling heat pumps with microprocessors . |
| 8 | No one has devised a research method , short of market trials , that can compare different media — and even such tests have their pitfalls . |
| 9 | The bicycle was obviously shaking the old order to the roots , and with its customary irreverence the socialist Clarion ( 30 July 1898 ) — which had a large stake in the matter , because of the enormously popular Clarion Cycling Clubs — wondered ‘ how it is no one has written a cycling melodrama , with a hero and a heroine and a villain on wheels ’ . |
| 10 | The fact that no one has created a furore over this would suggest that Ireland has travelled a hell of a healthy distance since those dark days in the 60's when your book was banned . |
| 11 | It is perhaps asking too much to exact sympathy when one has killed a king and bedded his queen but he deserved all the accolades he received . |
| 12 | The difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher , and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 13 | Really it 's a problem of time and resources erm the difficulties are that one has to spend a lot of time sitting in the classroom working with the teacher , or observing the teacher and it 's difficult to find that time when one is teaching at university . |
| 14 | So one has to use a quantum theory of gravity to discuss the very early stages of the universe . |
| 15 | One has to use a quantum theory of gravity to understand how the universe began . |
| 16 | It is usually difficult to see the individual minerals making up a basalt , since they are far too small , so one has to use a microscope . |
| 17 | Oh , I will agree that the electronic is very versatile , but if one has to justify a punchcard model , then the electronic would need even more justification . |
| 18 | If one has to take a view of the balance between the reinforce-and-stick-with-it , or the cut-your-loss schools , I think I tend to favour the cut-your-loss brigade . |
| 19 | If one has to identify a stimulus — for instance a word - then one can accomplish this more quickly if presentation of the word is immediately preceded by an associated word or picture . |
| 20 | Having successfully manoeuvred an inoffensive farewell , one discovers that one has left a book in the room . |
| 21 | Ai n't got my grill on them though Oh I pulled it down we got a top on that like that one has got a sort of like bit here |
| 22 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 23 | Instead , one has to have a collection of gluons whose colors add up to white . |
| 24 | No one has attempted a census of the fauna , but there are many common birds and the vegetation must supply food for many insects , so it would be surprising if the insectivores and small rodents were not colonising , and thereby attracting predators . |
| 25 | This month 's Keanu story : the studly one has started a band . |
| 26 | Sometimes in truth they do not exist : not all human behaviour is addictive in nature and one has to keep a sense of balance . |
| 27 | When one has told a friend about a stage performance or some media utterance that one feels he should go to see , one has performed that work to the friend and partly negated his need to see the work for himself . |
| 28 | It is almost as though one has to pass a test to be their friend . |
| 29 | If one has to pay a creditor £100 in one year 's time , it is not necessary to have £100 today . |
| 30 | If one has to pay a creditor £100 in one years time , it is not necessary to have £100 today . |