Example sentences of "it [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I frequently perform funerals three deep : that is , I do it for one person , who does it for another , who does it for the relatives of the deceased , he being the first person applied to . |
2 | People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night . |
3 | They were allowed to see it for one hour , before it was taken back , and none of them has been able to get hold of it since . |
4 | Is it for one driver or any driver ? |
5 | For example , an investor could buy a ten-year bond , hold it for one year and receive the coupon , and then sell it for the current price of a nine-year bond with the same coupon . |
6 | Suppose also that an investor intends to buy the share , hold it for one year and then sell it at the end of the year . |
7 | I wore it for one year and that |
8 | Which is what I meant to erm tt get on to Chris from the press office B B C Well I 'll give him a bell and just organize it for one day . |
9 | Scrap it for one day . |
10 | I do know that I 'm not going to put up with it for one minute longer , though . |
11 | I do n't believe it for one minute , personally , but this is the , this is the theory , and I 'll explain why I do n't believe it , later . |
12 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
13 | They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’ |
14 | I can do it for one minute twenty seconds . |
15 | Take your eyes off it for one second and … something frightful might happen . |
16 | ‘ I do n't think I really believed it for one second . |
17 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
18 | I mean we all live in a society where people wear clothes and we 'd probably feel a bit ashamed if we did n't have to wear any , but if you grew up in a society where nobody wears clothes , you would n't , would n't bother about it for one moment . |
19 | Black-leaved ilexes grew in the churchyard and a brassy laburnum had flowers on it for one week out of the year . |
20 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
21 | Mr McEd was acting pretty cagey about it for one thing and , when pressed , would only come up with the reassuring phrases : ‘ Every cloud has a silver lining Ed … ’ or ‘ Do n't worry son , you father 's not such an old fool as he looks … |
22 | When Christ , beaten and weak , is made to carry the cross , the long version presents it as one element in a series which together compose a " ruful " |
23 | I think you can put it as one word if you like . |
24 | But only lately have we come to think of it as one body , however large and interconnected it may be . |
25 | Behaviour has to be shaped up , bit by bit until the child is able to complete the whole of it as one process . |
26 | Those who would wish to take it in parts please show those against taking it in parts this evening we will vote on it as one amendment in that case . |
27 | Follow it through one week — or pick and choose the ideas that appeal to you . |
28 | Yeah , you say it after one go and you go up to the next go do n't you ? |
29 | And you can bung , you can bung some bipolar adjectives underneath it of one sort or another er |
30 | The bistable is often called a ‘ flip-flop ’ because you can ‘ flip ’ it into one state or ‘ flop ’ it into the other . |