Example sentences of "and [verb] one [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | They were opened with huge and ancient keys , and led one into a secret world of liquid green shadows . |
2 | Moët et Chandon has the leading brand in most world markets and supplies one in four of all bottles of champagne exported from F rance . |
3 | The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England . |
4 | Last Christmas , having loads of time on my hands over the holidays , I decided to take the plunge and make one at least as nice theirs . |
5 | If you feel adventurous , you could follow Rachel 's example and make one for yourself . |
6 | ‘ Well , I 'll just go and make one for me and Jake . |
7 | and pick one with |
8 | In a book by Dürer he read a description of a perspective device and made one for himself . |
9 | He reappeared carrying two glasses that tinkled with ice and passed one over the fence to the woman . |
10 | The poachers used stones to frighten their rabbits into the net , walking about and rattling one against the other . |
11 | The vicar ‘ came down to the steps at the top of the nave , accompanied by a server with a basket of palms and we all went up and got one except J[ack] . ’ |
12 | They have that particular one because the two little girls wanted to be bridesmaid 's , have just been bridesmaid 's and have these dresses and Anna thought the colour was so pretty , cos she went into Laura Ashley and got one in the sale of last years stock . |
13 | ‘ Look here , Miss O'Brien , if you 're really serious , why do n't you write a few handbills , saying what ’ Factota Limited' is and explaining its aims , and send one to everyone in the village ? |
14 | Cut a piece of felt into two pieces 2cms x 2cms and glue one on top of the other on the back of the bear 's head ( Fig 3 ) . |
15 | Cornelius helped Tuppe on to a stool and found one for himself . |
16 | They wanted a new start and found one in the form of nearby Hangman 's Wood , owned by the Marley Paving company . |
17 | It looked round for an ally , and found one in the old hereditary enemy , Austria-Hungary . |
18 | Then he went to bed , having checked the room for electronic bugs and found one in the base of the lamp . |
19 | Brush the tops of the two large rectangles with apricot glaze and place one on top of the other . |
20 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
21 | Take three potatoes of the same variety and place one in a cool dark place , expose one to daylight and one to fluorescent light . |
22 | Take two potatoes of the same variety and place one in the fridge on a high setting and the other in the vegetable rack for three days . |
23 | If you do not have a role thrust upon you , go out and grab one for yourself . |
24 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |
25 | I signed obediently , asking their names and writing one for each . |
26 | Many of my male colleagues would have asked their female secretaries to go out and choose one for them . |
27 | He took two of them up here and took them in sections and built one in Stenness and another in . |
28 | Now what I 'd like you to do is to select two , I told you I 'd be serious in the last part , the whole is here , is select the two pads you like best , please , and put one at the front of the binder and one at the back . |
29 | Pardy , if it was Pardy , may have slipped up and written one by hand . |
30 | Better to surrender quietly to that hell of pain , to slide into it , to crumble and fold like burning straw , to merge and coalesce and become one with it , until , phoenix-like , she floated away on the other side , whole and free . |