Example sentences of "one [noun] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The dose was selected to be comparable er , each strain was comparable to the other in terms of dose , B G C was instilled for one hour and then the patient er underwent er weekly installations for six weeks .
2 Slowly , with her fists clenched tightly and her lips pursed , she put one foot and then the other out on to the first stepping-stone .
3 With an effort , he heaved up first one foot and then the other and moved back onto firmer ground .
4 With just one board and maybe a couple of different size sails anyone from eight to eighty can get out there and have a go .
5 Men may wish to use a jacket for one piece and only a sweater for the other .
6 You could also use the medicine ball in a one-armed shot put action , using first one side and then the other .
7 There had ensued a formidable civil war , with the barons backing one side and then the other , while the Angevins undermined Stephen 's kingship with carefully laid plans of their own .
8 Then place your hands on your hips and stretch over to one side and then the other .
9 The reason is that at slow speeds it moves both legs on the same side of the body forward at the same time , first one side and then the other .
10 and you bring it down , and if there 's anything wrong you 'll feel it slowly so that it may click , you do one side and then the other , right the old fashioned treatment for erm dislocated hip was double nappies , er do you know what that ?
11 Well as I told you at you used to clip them that damn short and we when I was knocking them off , I had to keep dodging down , let the wag and keep knock clips off and chuck the one side and then the wagons came down They went down the hill like that , and then up here there was a hook line to stop them .
12 With difficulty she rolled his dead weight first to one side and then the other to search his pockets .
13 She sensed his fear and , perceiving that he had placed this construction upon their encounter , pressed herself closer to the soft protuberance of his cock , touching his balls with her cheeks , one side and then the other , wheedling the while .
14 The only relief is from being constantly carried and even then the relief may not last or they will want to be carried first by one parent and then the other .
15 A similar DOE has been found in experiments by Edwards , Jagielo , Zentall and Hogan ( 1982 ) , who used different types of grain to differentiate the outcomes , and by Peterson and Trapold ( 1984 ) who presented ( in the correlated condition ) food after a correct response for one trial-type and just a feedback tone for a correct response for the other type of trial .
16 Closing one eye and then the other reveals the same scene with the position of objects shifted slightly , particularly those nearby .
17 ‘ I look at your face , and I look at one eye and then the other and then your nose , but I ca n't seem to look at your face altogether , all at once , because the sight of your face is causing me pain . ’
18 With only six grades for such a large group of staff , it was not felt sensible , however , to use a system which apparently stated that a post scoring x points was clearly in one grade and yet a post scoring x 5 points was , equally clearly , in a different grade ( all possible scores were multiples of 5 and the range of possible scores was approximately 135 to 1500 ) .
19 At this stage it 's good to get your balance on the skis by jumping up on both skis together and ‘ stepping ’ — lifting first one ski and then the other .
20 To my mind the most powerful argument for having saints is that they are such a diverse bunch that among them will be at least one person that even the most eccentric believer can identify with .
21 What I 've been doing is changing the bottom three one day and then the high ones the next ; I never change them all at once because , even though you stretch them in , it still seems the bridge gets unstable . ’
22 Touring the huge THORP plant and Sellafield 's visitors ' centre took up one day and then the group were given a guided tour of nearby Muncaster Castle by Sir Patrick Gordon-Duff Pennington , whose family have lived in the historic castle for more than 300 years .
23 From time to time Nada , our 39ft ( 11.8m ) ketch , took to rolling heavily , dipping first one gunwale and then the other .
24 Fortunately in my confusion I had sometimes visualized one lung and sometimes the other .
25 About one-half of all farms in Britain now employ only one farm-worker and quite a few , in fact , employ none at all ( the work being done by family members ) .
26 And when he bent his head , first to one breast and then the other , his lips closing over her swollen nipples , she felt as though she was almost going to die of excitement .
27 It 's very helpful for both sides of the community , I 'm sure , to have contact like this and I think that the programme is usually very well devised in that you do have something either of mutual interest or one area and then the other area so that we can be informed about erm what 's going on in the other section of the community .
28 The oldest inhabitants were black , though they were not one people but quite a variety .
29 And now , writing the same novel all his life , Dostoevsky finds himself doomed to confront suicide as deed , perhaps life 's one deed and therefore the podvig he is seeking .
30 She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’
  Next page