Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 2 | It crashed on one side of a thick hedge . |
| 3 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 4 | It drove to one side , then turned 90 degrees , its tracks skidding on the rubble . |
| 5 | When we did it fairly roughly , it came to one point two ? |
| 6 | Quite funny in the shop , erm it came to one pound ninety two which is the usual price |
| 7 | Cos I 've the bill for the hotel it came in one lump as two hundred and four pound . |
| 8 | It came from one boy 's garden . |
| 9 | Relationships were difficult things , to be worked at , and how could any survive when the love in it came from one side only ? |
| 10 | The noise in the Chamber tonight did not do the House great credit , but I do not think that it came from one side alone . |
| 11 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 12 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 13 | It was circling slowly and very low down , almost touching , it seemed at one point , the summit of Big Allen . |
| 14 | So nearly , it seemed at one point . |
| 15 | It seemed at one stage that the dealer was dead — even some of the larger , more old-fashioned companies announced plans to introduce a direct sales scheme at the start of 1993 , although this has yet to happen . |
| 16 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 17 | " Mr. Preston likes it cooked in one piece , " Lizzie said . |
| 18 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 19 | The statement was extremely thin , but it touched on one matter of importance — the fact that some employers spend money on training but others do not : they poach . |
| 20 | And er er it varied from one stroke on one hand for a certain thing or one on each hand , up to I 've had as many as six strokes of the strap . |
| 21 | It teetered on one edge of its base , and toppled on to the platform with surprisingly little noise but with enough force for Bernice to feel the floor move beneath her feet and a blast of displaced air brush against her face . |
| 22 | It resulted from one group , the republicans , not accepting the oath of allegiance to the royal sovereign of the United Kingdom , a requirement of the constitution of 1922 . |
| 23 | But it looked at one stage as if they might lose their first choice and have to stay in Reigate for another summer when negotiations for the purchase coincided with their long-planned holiday of a lifetime — watching last month 's world cup cricket in Australia . |
| 24 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 25 | Wisely avoiding any rigorous definition , it offered at one point : |
| 26 | I believe in the case of these baths it took about one man year to do that transformation . |
| 27 | Even between New York and England , with no possible language problems to cause difficulty , it took in one case more than 180 days to effect service in London through the English subsidiary authority . |
| 28 | It scraped to one side as they slid to the carpeted floor . |
| 29 | He wedged the knife upright in the cutlery drawer while jamming it shut with one knee . |
| 30 | An irony of the Budget was that what it gave with one hand it took away with the other . |