Example sentences of "on the one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if everyone else is having a good time you tend to end up focusing on the one ASSHOLE ! |
| 2 | I do not recall much of the plot but all through childhood and beyond I have remained haunted by vivid remembered images : little leprechauns in mad underground celebration dancing round pots of gold , leaping over plundered treasures ; Michael and Katy skipping hand in hand through the fields ; the jaunty , laughing , Guinness swilling , devil may care Darby with his pub stories , his sideways philosophy and his battles of wit with the wily King Brian of the leprechauns ; but mainly , and most frighteningly , the dreaded death coach with its headless coachman come to call Darby 's soul on the one way trip to hell . |
| 3 | The two companies would keep separate identities and would only cooperate on the one service . |
| 4 | Well I think er yeah I definitely have to agree with you that we 're not hearing enough of them but I suppose more and more now people are starting to record you know a little bit more of the older stuff and I think what 's happened on the pop scene that they 've absolutely dried up as regards er creating new music you know and people are going into computerized music now and you know everything is played on the one machine and it 's getting like a er I do n't know it 's as as if you do n't really have to be a musician any more . |
| 5 | St George is seen to slay a twin-headed dragon : on the one head is a hammer and sickle , on the other a dollar sign , and both heads emerge from a body bearing the Star of David . |
| 6 | In ‘ Ease , Into Place and Grow Accustomed ’ ( 1987 ) , the steamy blinding oranges , sonorous azure blues and the more synthetic , interior quality of an intense billiard-table green hint at the ways in which colour operates simultaneously on the one level as pre-verbal , as bodily sensation or perception , and on the other as a sign or symbol which modifies or disrupts a system or construction . |
| 7 | Obviously , since mating itself takes place mainly on the one night , and the development period is so compressed , one would expect the toadlets to emerge more or less together . |
| 8 | Uncle Willi , she was sure , would totally understand about being in love , even though he was Georg 's father , but he would n't understand that you had to be in love on the one night of his party , not when you 'd had all those other evenings with Gesner . |
| 9 | All the blokes on the one night on they used to go in there . |
| 10 | This extract is useful in order to illustrate how the field-worker , on the one policeman 's own admission , both needed to be tested and was successful in passing . |
| 11 | Alternatively many restaurants offer a cosmopolitan selection of dishes and so you can find on the one menu everything from the French Eggs Benedict to native Cajun Chicken and of course the ubiquitous Apple Pie . |
| 12 | What is of considerable interest and of value in assessing the rights and wrongs of it , is the fact that it was conducted from beginning to end entirely on the one issue , that of the sovereign rights of the inhabitants . |
| 13 | It was because the Tory Opposition would not allow it — and that in spite of a general election which , fought on the one issue , had just returned a House of Commons with a large majority in favour . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , given the folk image of policemen , on the one occasion when the field-worker accompanied some policemen on court duty , the men expressed a preference for ‘ fair ’ judges and actually criticized what they thought was the excessive penalty imposed by a ‘ hard ’ judge for the offence of throwing an empty can ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 10 ) . |
| 15 | On the one occasion when they had met in those six weeks , it had been to visit flood victims in Wales , in the town of Carmarthen , which had been hit by the freak October hurricane . |
| 16 | He had n't on the one occasion he 'd been there — in fact they 'd treated him rather badly , although he did n't like to admit as much . |
| 17 | On the one occasion that week that Gina brought home something , he complained about it . |
| 18 | However , on the one occasion that I bought fretsaw blades from them for 3d a dozen , a penny cheaper than elsewhere , I found that they were very inferior , breaking almost immediately . |
| 19 | On the one occasion this was said to me , my reply was : ‘ OK , imagine I go out to dinner and do n't get back . |
| 20 | Merton 's clothes on this show had by now reached previously unfathomed depths : shrunk , unironed Magic Roundabout T-shirts and lumberjack shirts without washing instructions ( on the one occasion Merton wore a smart suit , he stopped the show mid-way through and exclaimed : ‘ Is n't anyone going to ask me why I 'm looking so smart today ? ’ ) . |
| 21 | On the one occasion when they did , in the run-up to the 1935 Election , it was — as we shall see — the peace movement that was agitating for a policy of resistance to aggression , and the Government that was forced by public opinion to suspend its deeply unpopular policy of appeasement — until the Election was safely out of the way . |
| 22 | On the one occasion on which I did so ( according to my diary ) the other girls laughed , and the teacher became annoyed , accusing me of being deliberately provocative . |
| 23 | Anton repeatedly tries to speak to him but , on the one occasion when the phone gets picked up , Courtney yells ‘ He 's asleep ! ’ and slams it down again . |
| 24 | On the one occasion she had broached the subject of his mother , David had looked at her with cold eyes , saying in a hard voice , ‘ My mother was her own worst enemy . |
| 25 | On the one occasion when I made a direct appeal to her , in connection with the battle against the closed shop for journalists which I describe later , her response was gratifyingly supportive and it was no fault of hers that she was unable to persuade Lord Hailsham to a course of action that might well have altered journalistic history . |
| 26 | Other people 's lives bored him and he became sharp and irritable on the one occasion Lucien tried to impart some interesting snippet of information Azmaveth had told him . |
| 27 | On the one occasion Southampton did threaten after Leeds scored Kelly made a very timely interception as one of the Southampton forwards beared down on goals . |
| 28 | Beside it , crouched on the one bit of sand which allowed space for casting , George gave his full attention to his float . |
| 29 | Where this range of charts scores is by including all the information on the one chart rather than having to go to other sources of reference . |
| 30 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |