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 .
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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 .
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