Example sentences of "in one [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in one telling passage he speaks of his loneliness and of a crushing depression . |
| 2 | In one bitter-sweet passage he said : ‘ I wish the Prime Minister well and hope his changes will produce whatever advantage for him and the Government that he intended . ’ |
| 3 | It then erm , they would , they went out in one complete entity you see and the trolley wires were just taken down . |
| 4 | In one major respect it is different , though : her two pauses of 0.6 seconds ( lines 11 and 13 ) are interpreted as signals that other speakers may now have the floor . |
| 5 | Over the next few days he was never out of the press and in one emotional moment he confided to a journalist that he felt betrayed by Scotland . |
| 6 | In one split second I see the brown topcoat and his jogger gape at us . |
| 7 | Simon McBurney brings a fidgety , sweaty intensity to the role of the troubled king , and in one superb scene he is discovered standing on top of a wardrobe , gazing miserably down on the happy innocents beneath him as his heart is gnawed by destructive jealousy . |
| 8 | In one windowless room I was introduced to a Dr Maté Jozsef . |
| 9 | His performance was pitiful , five goals flew past him from a bewildering array of angles , and in one pathetic ritual he ended up wrapped round the goal-post , in a knot of utter hopelessness . |
| 10 | But the attack , when it came , came from an entirely unexpected quarter , leaving her completely without defence , as in one easy move he thrust his long fingers into her mane of hair and pulled her to him , his mouth silencing the startled cry on her lips . |
| 11 | In one such mood I turned for the first time to Marcus Aurelius . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe that if we deal with both of these subjects in one such conference we risk overloading the boat . ’ |
| 13 | Er the difficulties with P P G seven and the countryside are exemplified in paragraph one ten which Mr Donson refers to as his guiding principle , in one single paragraph it manages to include three separate uses of the word countryside , wider countryside , the countryside and open countryside , indicating perhaps some of the difficulties in in erm identifying exactly what area it is that would be covered by a Policy E two . |
| 14 | She tried to twist free , but in one deft movement he hooked his arm beneath her knees and , completely oblivious to her struggles , threw her on to the bed . |
| 15 | In one scientific experiment it was found that a daily increase of log of dietary fibre , by the addition of more fruit , vegetables and wholemeal bread to an ordinary Western diet , increased the number of calories excreted in a bowel movement by nearly go . |
| 16 | In one particular case we find progressive assimilation of manner , when a word-initial follows a plosive or nasal at the end of a preceding word : it is very common to find that the C i becomes identical in manner to the C f but with dental place of articulation . |
| 17 | Er I were telling you about the pianos , in one particular terrace you could just imagine it in , what , nineteen er twenty si no , twenty seven twenty eight , and you know things were bad , you talk about the thirties , the twenties were worse than that . |
| 18 | Her face grimly determined , she lunged , and in one swift movement he tossed his shield aside , grabbed the pitchfork , and pulled . |
| 19 | In one bony hand he clutched an oak club driven through with rusty nails . |
| 20 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 21 | In one unwelcome marriage you learn much about the means of evading a second , and still retaining the consequence gained by the first . |