Example sentences of "one [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 no one sits out at the tables
2 Each life decision is to some extent irrevocable , since even if one goes back to the fork in the road and takes the other turning , he can not eradicate the effects of the experience the first choice has brought him .
3 If one goes back to the Greek , one will find the term speiran , a precise translation of ‘ cohort ’ .
4 When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities .
5 One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ?
6 The river is broad here , about two hundred yards , and from its banks one looks up to the baroque turrets of the Benedictine monastery of Stift Göttweig , perched high on its wooded hill .
7 From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background .
8 From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background .
9 Again , one looks back to the nineteenthcentury origins of English literary studies , when the first pioneers and missionaries , men such as Morley and Furnivall , travelled all over the country to talk about English literature in adult education classes and working men 's clubs .
10 They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living .
11 Although the provision of public housing had been established as a principle in rural areas by 1939 — by itself no mean achievement when one looks back over the history of rural housing — the results of twenty years of legislation were a disappointment .
12 The more one looks back on the record the more one is impressed by the role of Mrs Thatcher as a dominant figure and as an illustration of the power of the Prime Minister .
13 If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion .
14 The fact that no one is given command in the green movements does not mean that no one stands out among the ruck .
15 There are some noteworthy differences in brain physiology , apart from the massive increase in brain size , as one passes up through the other primates to man .
16 When one grows up in the north-east , one is aware that the region is a long way from the English seat of power in London .
17 Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic .
18 One puts up with the sex for the secret ,
19 One puts up with the secret for the sex
20 Or does he concur with the view of the Minister for Housing and Planning that the homeless are merely the people whom one steps over on the way out of the opera ?
21 From the paved patio one steps down to the path that leads around to the side of the house , diving access to the rotary washing line that is set in a bed of loose cobbles and sculptural boulders .
22 As soon as one says that one is going to study organizational life indeed , any aspect of human life — one runs up against the problem of what lens to use to view the scene .
23 If one runs out of the latter one can use paper tissues instead , though I would n't recommend them for pressing fragile flower heads as the tissues can leave a slight pattern on the petals .
24 This is of course a perfectly defensible approach , but it seems to me a limited one : inevitably one comes up against the micro-macro conundrum .
25 However one looks at the early movies one comes up against the decisive contribution of the showmen , but obviously their role was most noticeable in the way the movies were presented .
26 Once again one comes back to the fundamental question of how much use all this is and whether the NSA really provides good value for money .
27 Every time some new one comes out on the market he always calls up the maker and tells them about the small pools win he 's just had . ’
28 If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures .
29 One arises out of the need for state provision of education to be efficient and economical , which means that policy considerations might outweigh individual parental preference .
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