Example sentences of "one to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the most popular include the one to the Salzkammergut and St Wolfgang a trip round Austria 's beautiful Lake District with a stop at St Wolfgang , home of the famous White Horse Inn . |
| 2 | I throw one to the back of the room . |
| 3 | Donald felt the pressure from her and stared from one to the other , letting them feel his defiance and distaste . |
| 4 | Wexford looked from one to the other . |
| 5 | The dividing line between border and pathway melts as plants spill over from one to the other . |
| 6 | ‘ The area between Benghazi and Sirte ’ : the road from the one to the other is 400 kilometers long , and so the area implied is very large . |
| 7 | The distance between any two points would then he proportional to the number of neurones a message must traverse to get from one to the other ; it would also be roughly proportional to the time taken for a neural message to travel between them . |
| 8 | Like all really good recipes , the proportion of one to the other is entirely arbitrary and you could use canned rather than fresh pineapple . |
| 9 | It is relatively easy to move from one to the other . |
| 10 | Experts continue to disagree about how to extrapolate from one to the other , although it is generally accepted that even the smallest dose carries a health risk . |
| 11 | Mrs Marsden looked from one to the other in confusion . |
| 12 | I remembered moving from one to the other , explaining : I am a writer ; the notebooks are what is precious to me . |
| 13 | ‘ You think I should keep two establishments and sneak furtively from one to the other like some sort of guilty adulterous cad ? ’ |
| 14 | Sir George looked from one to the other . |
| 15 | These tales are told with an extraordinary lightness : the frequency of the present or the perfect as narrative tenses ; the adoption of a simple but precise vocabulary ; the sparing use of adjectives ; the composition of short , essential paragraphs added one to the other , not like bricks , in the conventional metaphor of story-building , but more like transparent balloons lifting the story off the ground — with all of these techniques , Celati has created a mode of story-telling which shakes off the weight of narrative in what is a conscious and consistent effort to pare away the superstructure of ideology and ‘ that homogeneous and totalizing continuity that is called history ’ ( Celati 1975 : 14 ; cf. |
| 16 | Taking in every inch of their bodies , she said , looking from one to the other , she said , in her famously well-timed drawl , That 's just how I want you . |
| 17 | The 1960s were marked by a strong interest in the relationship between primary and secondary education , and in possible changes in the age of transfer from one to the other . |
| 18 | However , on the morning of his funeral , two senior guests , reading their papers after breakfast , raised quizzical eyebrows : ‘ Well , the General will not be needing his loch this morning , ’ said the one to the other . |
| 19 | Sometimes a grammar school and a secondary modern school were located close to one another , even on the same ‘ campus ’ , in order to facilitate the sharing of resources , or the movement of pupils from one to the other . |
| 20 | She nodded from one to the other ; then watched the young man open the door and stand aside to allow his wife to pass before him . |
| 21 | She came in and bolted the door , then stood with her back to it , looking from one to the other . |
| 22 | I 've never seen anything like it before , ’ and she was looking from one to the other , wondering which one it was meant to fit , when Miss Rene startled her by saying , ‘ Well , get your coat and things off and try it on . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , yes , yes ’ — the old lady nodded from one to the other at the table now — ‘ in a crocodile , from the school to the church , from the school to the conciergerie , from the … ’ |
| 24 | And , looking from one to the other , she now said , ‘ Goodnight , fellows , and a happy Christmas . ’ |
| 25 | Betty Felton now put her head back and looked from one to the other of her four sons and she said , ‘ Aye , there 's a confectioner 's an' baccy shop in that street . |
| 26 | She watched the big woman flop back and onto a chair , then look from one to the other of her silent sons as she said , ‘ Did you hear that ? |
| 27 | When at last they came to the lower end of Spring Street , Agnes stopped and , looking from one to the other , she said , ‘ This is where I live ; I 'll be all right now . |
| 28 | Denis hesitated and looked from one to the other , then he put the paten under Noreen 's chin . |
| 29 | Based on the teaching of Jesus about confessing faults one to the other , each brother chose another and they confessed to and directed each other . |
| 30 | They need to be tough minded as well as lovingly tender and to know when to ‘ change gear ’ from one to the other . |