Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prime was brought down when to escape a hostile bid from MAI Systems Corp , it agreed to one of the last — and most doomed — leveraged buyouts in the computer industry by a group led by J H Whitney & Co , just before the boom fell on such transactions , which saddled Prime with a debt burden that at the time looked unsustainable — as so it has proved . |
| 2 | Much of the energy at these wavelengths is absorbed by the atmosphere , which means that a remote sensing instrument such as the MSS or TM would , if it operated in one of these bands , be unable to see through the atmosphere and consequently would be unable to obtain any information about the surface of the Earth . |
| 3 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 4 | The signature no doubt referred to the statues , but the bases show that painting as well as relief was practised in his workshop ; and the style of the low relief on the other bases ( fig. 94 ) with its red background throwing up the figures of athletes is so like Pioneer red-figure that one could easily imagine it produced by one of those artists . |
| 5 | I think it 's very unlikely but I think it described as one avoid the greenbelt , to be seen to be er encompassing all possibilities . |
| 6 | It crashed on one side of a thick hedge . |
| 7 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 8 | It drove to one side , then turned 90 degrees , its tracks skidding on the rubble . |
| 9 | It accelerated like one of those old twentieth century water-speed record breakers and hurtled over the water ! |
| 10 | When we did it fairly roughly , it came to one point two ? |
| 11 | So if you kept C R fixed and you happened to fiddle them so it came to one , you could just You You 're working out your graph you see you see then . |
| 12 | Quite funny in the shop , erm it came to one pound ninety two which is the usual price |
| 13 | quite two happy in the bottom of the bag and it came to one fifty |
| 14 | Cos I 've the bill for the hotel it came in one lump as two hundred and four pound . |
| 15 | It came from one of the huge stone jars in the herbalist 's shop near the bottom of Manchester Road . |
| 16 | Relationships were difficult things , to be worked at , and how could any survive when the love in it came from one side only ? |
| 17 | The noise in the Chamber tonight did not do the House great credit , but I do not think that it came from one side alone . |
| 18 | It came from one boy 's garden . |
| 19 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 20 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 21 | It seemed at one stage that the dealer was dead — even some of the larger , more old-fashioned companies announced plans to introduce a direct sales scheme at the start of 1993 , although this has yet to happen . |
| 22 | It was circling slowly and very low down , almost touching , it seemed at one point , the summit of Big Allen . |
| 23 | So nearly , it seemed at one point . |
| 24 | It happened during one of Mrs Mouse 's musical evenings . |
| 25 | Would n't you want to do something about it if it happened to one of your friends ? ’ |
| 26 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 27 | In his important book The concept of mind ( 1949 ) Ryle exploded the dogma by successfully demonstrating that , as used in the Cartesian ‘ myth ’ , the term represents the facts of mental life as if it belonged to one logical type or category , when it actually belongs to another . |
| 28 | " Mr. Preston likes it cooked in one piece , " Lizzie said . |
| 29 | In the 1890s it declined in one of its strongholds , Kurunagala district . |
| 30 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |