Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Scared ? ’ he asked casually on one occasion when going down a steep hill that had a sheer drop on one side . |
| 2 | She stood up to walk stiffly around the desk , glaring at him as he stepped politely to one side and let her precede him from the room . |
| 3 | The significance of Simmel 's work is that he breaks away from one of the most predominant tendencies in the grounding of Hegel in social analysis : that is , the suggestion that we can separate off the positive side of sublation from the negative side of externalization as rupture . |
| 4 | He glided effortlessly from one side of the hill to the other with total confidence , even having time to make jokes while trying to pluck a twig from a bush . |
| 5 | After one hundred polls he started again from one , and the teller marked off the hundred votes . |
| 6 | He smiled sweetly at one of the young ladies . |
| 7 | He was able to sell the leaves for high prices , and people said he earned enough in one month to meet his annual needs for cash . |
| 8 | Susan Einzig thought he dressed badly until one day she recognised in his ugly sweaters and ill-matched clothes a marvellous insouciance . |
| 9 | He stamped away down one of the corridors . |
| 10 | One minute , she starts collecting one thing then you start collecting another thing Christmas , he come home with one of them . |
| 11 | Yet here , on the verge of the Lowlands , most of the gentry had hedged their bets ; some had even entertained the Butcher as he progressed triumphally from one massacre to the next and had then bought over the gutted glens and stocked them with the great sheep . |
| 12 | He was a small man , distinctly foreign in appearance , with a rigidly waxed moustache and an egg-shaped head which he carried rather to one side . |
| 13 | He wrote light-heartedly of one of his own orienteering exercises : ‘ Tonight we have a pretty tough scheme , lasting from 9 o'clock till 7 tomorrow morning . |
| 14 | For a while he sat outside on one of the benches , ordering a pot of ale and relaxing in the sunshine . |