Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived in one of the tombs . |
| 2 | Lynagh missed half-a-dozen kicks at goal but he succeeded with one conversion and five penalties . |
| 3 | He plunged past one plane and caught a blurred glimpse of another , wheeling towards him . |
| 4 | ‘ He passed on one of his girl friends to me , ’ Mitchell said . |
| 5 | He hurried through the open doorway into the house and a few seconds later reappeared carrying a rifle which he passed from one hand to the other as |
| 6 | But er , he he hopped on one day and er had a talk with him and so on and took my temperature and pulse and that , this , that and other , he said well I 'll call again he said , when I 'm by , but he never did ! |
| 7 | He agreed to one last tour only after lengthy soul-searching at home . |
| 8 | I put this theory to Walter Avrili , mortgage expert with John Charcol and he agreed with one proviso . |
| 9 | Regularly , at least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 10 | Regularly , a least one day a week , he goes to one of a few chosen locations to shoot a roll of film and has been doing this now for several years and so has built up a record of places such as Trafalgar Square , Westminster Bridge and the South Bank in London . |
| 11 | Walking home , he goes through one large garden gate , only to see the other one fall down . |
| 12 | He had always said that Rose Lacson , the woman he met in one of Manila 's finest hotels and brought back to live in a mansion that she designed , would inherit his iron-ore wealth . |
| 13 | He sits on one of the little white stools . |
| 14 | She was sitting turned in against his chest , and he rode with one arm around her , supporting her . |
| 15 | Not that I ever went into the house , for the doctor 's surgery , which he shared with one other , stood in Witney High Street where it widened into the market place . |
| 16 | When he applied to one college for a teaching job he was told bluntly they would have nothing to do with blind people . |
| 17 | ‘ He asked for one last Christmas and I insisted even though Barry — Mr Tuckett — thought it a bit childish . ’ |
| 18 | If he got into one of his queer moods he could do anything . |
| 19 | Rex and I had annoyed him by belittling the Levellers over lunch and there was no reasoning with him when he got into one of his self-righteous moods , so we left him to it . |
| 20 | He said , Let's get in here and we got in , he got into one bunk at one side and I got in to t other . |
| 21 | He got to one knee but had to stay down until the count reached nine . |
| 22 | Later he became a close family friend and I envied and admired him , for he got to one remote and interesting place after another — Somaliland , Abyssinia , Kurdistan , Burma and China . |
| 23 | He revealed to one of his colleagues that he had spent the afternoon down by a near-by river struggling with the impulse to jump in . |
| 24 | Yet , as he revealed in one of his later outbursts , he did take Jewish pupils , perhaps without realising at first that they were so . |
| 25 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ he cries in one of his disarming bursts of candour , ‘ You turn on the radio and say to yourself ‘ Who wrote this junk ? ’ . |
| 26 | He send for one brother , then two brother , then four brother , then for his Mamma to make house for him in New York . |
| 27 | He looks like one of the you know |
| 28 | Like a ping-pong ball he bounced from one emotion to another , knowing what he wanted but knowing also that it did not exist . |
| 29 | He opened a bottle of wine he found in one of her kitchen cupboards , and they celebrated Jack 's safety to the sound of Kathleen 's tearful giggles . |
| 30 | When he allowed his prime minister to make reassuring comments about France 's continuing role in Algeria or when he himself encouraged rumours that self-determination was just window-dressing for the UN , he was not merely deceiving people for the sake of his Algerian policy ; he was fulfilling what he regarded as one of the state 's sacred responsibilities : to keep the fabric of national unity intact . |