Example sentences of "one [noun] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert that 's one hurdle out of the way . |
| 2 | Back on the main road , one kilometre out of the village , it is worth turning off and making the short drive up to the Pico da Torre viewpoint which gives a lovely view of Câmara de Lobos . |
| 3 | Well we went into the Rifle Brigade Barracks at Winchester and used to work out at a big house outside of Winchester so we had to march out there and then at the time of Dunkirk , they were looking for places to put all the soldiers that they 'd brought and er , we were cleared out of Barnet , er out of Winchester Barracks and posted up to Nottingham and we worked in the factory , which was taken over by the Army then and erm , and then whilst there , I suppose that was about nineteen what , about nineteen fo coming up to nineteen forty two , they decided to have a recheck or rethink on medicals , so we were all subject to another medical and they put me back to A one and says , right we 're getting rid of all A one personnel out of the Pay Corp , you have a choice Royal Army Ordnance Corp or the Royal Artillery . |
| 4 | If you were put on the rack , you were pinned with your back to the buttress — two boys , one on each side took your arms , put one foot up on the edge of the buttress and pulled — it was painful . |
| 5 | Li Yuan was standing on the far side of the room , beside the ceremonial kang , one foot up on the ledge of it , his right hand stroking his unbearded chin . |
| 6 | ‘ Honestly , Reg … ’ began Bob , trying to get one foot down on the floor behind him . |
| 7 | Trapped with one foot in and one foot out of the sacristy , it was during 1616 that his personal liberty was put at risk . |
| 8 | But first , with news of a team that 's managed to get at least one foot OUT of the grave , here 's Erika . |
| 9 | Might be able to get one board out of the two might n't you ? |
| 10 | I had taken the slabs one course back from the edge of the hole , and Lou had arranged them neatly in order , so we would know what went where . |
| 11 | a nominal 0 per cent ( in fact a quarter of 1 per cent , or one course out of the total of 376 ) was concerned with home-school links . |
| 12 | One tooth out on the rubber timing belt makes a lot of difference . |
| 13 | Secondly , the zone of tension between the Soviet Union and the West allowed national liberation movements to play one side off against the other : on the one hand , fear of ‘ communism ’ induced some colonial powers to make political concessions , while on the other the Soviet Union often provided political support , arms and training to these movements . |
| 14 | If this does happen , put one tray back in the oven to keep warm . |
| 15 | You need to present a united front and avoid taking sides or playing one child off against the other . |
| 16 | The child may gravitate to the parent that is easier to manipulate or try to play one parent off against the other . |
| 17 | To show how fantastic he was driving , he only missed one fairway out of the 72 holes , despite the strange bounces and the danger of the ball running off the straight and narrow all the time . |
| 18 | … one hand out of its chest , one leg out of its haunch and one eye out of the front of its face . |
| 19 | One walks between the banks that show where the houses stood , marking how blocks of squared masonry thrust in one place out of the turf ( a more important building than most of them ) , and how the tree-roots twist among the rubble footings of the peasant dwellings ; and one picks up pieces of twelfth- and thirteenth-century pottery — mere sherds , bits of rim , of sides , of bases , but all datable : nothing later than the Black Death , when the great silence descended . |
| 20 | ( This , by the way , is a good example of setting one group up as the norm and treating others as deviant . |
| 21 | He straightened , and she heaved one jar out of the basin , but he took it from her and she felt his strength give the heavy vessel sudden lift ; she put it down and thanked him . |
| 22 | " That 's one complication out of the way . " |
| 23 | We went to this restaurant one night up in the mountain , he was starting to tell you , we walked in and there was all these people about eighteen and twenty sitting in the middle of the room and we went in , and it was late , it must of been eleven and we said you know can we eat and he said yes , yes and after he said , he said |
| 24 | It was my one night off of the week , and a lot of thought went into how I spent it . |
| 25 | One major down on the evening was the performance of the referee/linesmen . |
| 26 | If this is so , stopping ( e ) for example , will only cut one behaviour out of the tantrum . |
| 27 | Under strain for a start because it was technically ill-equipped to avert disaster or to cope with the consequences when disaster struck ; under strain from commercial pressures which , as the inquiry puts it , ‘ compromised ’ safety ; under strain above all because the people on the spot could n't or would n't cope , were weary from gruesome working hours ( the senior signal technician who heads the list of the culpable had had only one day off in the past 13 weeks ) , lacked adequate training , or simply could n't be bothered . |
| 28 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |
| 29 | As the box-office grosses mounted , establishment Hollywood was beginning to talk in less insulting terms about him , and , one day out of the blue , he called Nicholson . |
| 30 | Because he only ever , he only threw one egg out of the audience and we caught it , whereas at a , every year he throws lots of Wagon Wheels out . |