Example sentences of "it [prep] one [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it for one driver or any driver ? |
| 2 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |
| 3 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
| 4 | I wore it for one year and that |
| 5 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 6 | Take your eyes off it for one second and … something frightful might happen . |
| 7 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
| 8 | I think you can put it as one word if you like . |
| 9 | Yeah , you say it after one go and you go up to the next go do n't you ? |
| 10 | And you can bung , you can bung some bipolar adjectives underneath it of one sort or another er |
| 11 | The bistable is often called a ‘ flip-flop ’ because you can ‘ flip ’ it into one state or ‘ flop ’ it into the other . |
| 12 | Stun it with one dose and swat it with the next . |
| 13 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 14 | he tries to do it with one finger but he 's just not quite strong enough |
| 15 | She held it with one hand while the other went to her throat , as Nellie 's face appeared at the door . |
| 16 | He steadied it with one hand whilst with the other he slammed the doors , then holding the handle of the basket , he tottered away . |
| 17 | She rested the child she was carrying on the parapet , the child being asleep , and held it with one hand as she used the other to search at her breast purse for her money . |
| 18 | He remained by the table , holding the edge of it with one hand because the table was shaking . |
| 19 | ‘ Trust me to get a cat like you , ’ said Mildred fondly , stroking it with one hand and unclasping its claws with the other . |
| 20 | The difference being , that if it 's a saucepan then obviously a saucepan you lift it with one hand and if it 's full of hot water or something then you 'd have to be careful . |
| 21 | Today we had one of those famous assault courses , followed by a ten-mile forced march ; my platoon did it in one hour and forty minutes , which is not too bad . |
| 22 | So they achieved it in one state and then they moved on to another and started a whole new campaign . |
| 23 | First they happen in June that 's that 's a good starter for one , and they 're really not that big a problem and I guess people in London would just laugh at the prospect of the noise which which May Balls cause and not worry about it in one way and would not have telephone calls to the local council and lots of stories in my newspaper every year . |
| 24 | By the second half of the fourteenth century , few in France could claim not to be involved in it in one way or another . |
| 25 | At present , a very large number of people are exposed to it in one way or another . |
| 26 | It 's a very distressing erm syndrome for many women and er there 's quite a lot of evidence that it 's hormonally linked and most women suffer from it in one way or another . |
| 27 | She swallowed it in one gulp and started to cough . |
| 28 | I swallowed it in one gulp and almost died of coughing . |
| 29 | Now I did it in one method and Mr Grigson did it in er in a second method , and the ability to do that changes the number of households that it would project to the er the dwellings , and cancels out , this makes judgements erm on the actual population projections based , which are estimates that have come out , I do n't necessarily believe the best measured estimates have come out for York , and have adjusted some of the figures in accordance with that . |
| 30 | Using a skewer , make two holes in the carrot by pushing it in one side and out through the other . |