Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | During one date in Malibu they sat holding hands and gazing into one another 's eyes , according to witnesses . |
| 2 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 3 | Young men formed neighbourhood jazz bands , creating uniforms out of crêpe paper and competing against one another for modest prices . |
| 4 | He was removing his thick leather belt with one hand and struggling with one of her buttons . |
| 5 | The way Albert was staring at her , dry and disbelieving with one eyebrow raised , was so maddening ! |
| 6 | Beyond this point the rows of atoms will subside into repose in the next valley and shearing through one atomic spacing will have occurred . |
| 7 | A gangpath ran from Corridor 11 , just by number 23 , crossing Corridor 12 high up , and twisting onto one of the stairs . |
| 8 | Imagine three spiral staircases starting from the ground 120 degrees apart in plan view , and twisting round one another ! |
| 9 | He rapidly became one of the prince 's closest friends , accompanying him on his crusade of 1270–2 and appearing as one of his executors in the will which Edward made at Acre in June 1272 . |
| 10 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 11 | Libby had been heaving and pushing at one of the logs , covered with rotten bark that peeled off , revealing orange insect eggs and small white channels like blood vessels covering the surface . |
| 12 | In his biography of John Wesley the by then very conservative Robert Southey warned : Perhaps the manner in which Methodism has familiarized the lower classes to the work of combining in associations , making rules for their own governance , raising funds , and communicating from one part of the kingdom to another , may be reckoned among the incidental evils which have arisen from it . |
| 13 | As a rough guide , the distance in nautical miles over which signals can be received can be estimated by taking the square root of your altitude and multiplying by one and a quarter . |
| 14 | We allocated speaking and listening to one profile component since they are essentially reciprocal , interacting activities and , as such , best taken together . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that the Islander aircraft have established a reputation as the Rolls-Royce of the skies , being virtually indestructible and operating in one of the most hostile environments in the world ? |
| 16 | Then they did the whole thing all over again without stirrups , and all the time talking and shouting to one another . |
| 17 | Now I am thirty-five years old , and married to a traditional observant Jew and living in one of London 's most Jewish areas , I can laugh at the mistaken ideas I had . |
| 18 | Besides , there is a back-log of acidity already in the soil ; and according to one estimate , Scottish lochs would remain at their disastrously acid level even if present acid fallout was halved by AD 2000 . |
| 19 | Youthful offenders were also believed to be getting younger , and according to one magistrate parental authority was at such a low ebb that ‘ it is melancholy to find that some parents are not ashamed to confess that children of seven or eight years old are entirely beyond their control ’ , while another thought that ‘ in nine cases out of ten , children are entirely masters of the position ’ . |
| 20 | And according to one study of young black mothers , they are often deterred from attending clinics and classes because of judgemental and discriminatory treatment by hospital and community staff . |
| 21 | And according to one teacher , who fears she might be victimised if she gives her name , only one of the two teachers taken on at her school for a total of 48 four-year-olds , was actually trained to teach under-fives . |
| 22 | Significantly , this followed the troubles in the North in the previous year , and according to one early source , the rebels then had petitioned for the earldom to be restored to the lawful heir . |
| 23 | We can not be like Red Indians , sitting in a circle and acting as one man. , ‘ Do you think we have lost that forever ? ’ |
| 24 | Well I , I I , I do n't mind how it 's done but erm I hear nothing on the many people on , you know , who talk about erm giving aid erm a dread from this problem is this vast erm amount of the G M P and going on armaments and going on one way and another . |
| 25 | From all directions people were still pouring out of the maze of the Old City and heading towards one of the three gates of the Jama Masjid — three seething crocodiles of humanity heading towards the same walled courtyard . |
| 26 | He stared as Matthew mutinously bit his lip , lowering his gaze to the floor and fidgeting from one foot to the other . |
| 27 | False clarity is only another name for myth ; and myth has always been obscure and enlightening at one and the same time : always using the devices of familiarity and straightforward dismissal to avoid the labour of conceptualization . |
| 28 | When two businesses are both buying from and selling to one another the outstanding accounts between them can be offset and the net balance paid by whoever owes it to the other . |
| 29 | One hundred and eighty pounds with the lady at one eighty and selling for one eighty in the back row . |
| 30 | Lot eleven the Tibetan model there 's the model showing eighty pounds for this , at eighty , eighty five offered , at ninety , ninety five , ninety five bid , one hundred and ten , twenty , thirty a hundred and thirty is offered at one hundred and thirty , one forty a new bidder now , one forty to my right and selling for one hundred and forty thank you , one forty for join on . |