Example sentences of "one [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | One read out a letter about how his shop was being pushed out of business by EC regulations . |
| 2 | But no sound outside and he tried again : now with both of his hands , one to steady up the other , to work back the locking door-holt . |
| 3 | Mickey 's invited us to a party at his house , and no one turns down an invite to Mickey 's ! |
| 4 | One thinks rather the better of Phyllis Bottome for wanting to believe that what had to happen could in fact have been averted . |
| 5 | The mistake would be for the one to cancel out the other . |
| 6 | Berowne 's towel is presumably the one hanging on the chair and that looked dry enough . ’ |
| 7 | That is , as far as Gandhi is concerned , the attainment of one involves also the realization of the other . |
| 8 | Figure 6.3b shows yet another type of homoclinic orbit ; this one involves only the stationary points and C " . |
| 9 | There would be no one to carry on the Drennan name , no one to inherit his land . |
| 10 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 11 | In this way one goes up the scale gradually instead of in leaps as in the centesimal scale . |
| 12 | As one goes up the scale , though , one finds that magmas of more granitic composition are involved and they and the lavas they produce are more viscous . |
| 13 | So as one goes down the stratigraphical column , if one leaves behind the spectacles of the specialist and looks about one with the wondering eyes of a child , one never ceases to be amazed at the diversity and yet the uniformity of it all . |
| 14 | One goes nearest the majority of points . |
| 15 | Each one searches along a zig-zag course . |
| 16 | One adds up the probabilities for all the particle histories with certain properties , such as passing through certain points at certain times . |
| 17 | To calculate the probability of finding a real space-time with some certain property , such as looking the same at every point and in every direction , one adds up the waves associated with all the histories that have that property . |
| 18 | Thus if a defective toaster catches fire damaging the house and contents , one adds up the value of the damage done ( but not including either the toaster itself or any property used mainly for business purposes , e.g. a word processor ) . |
| 19 | One way would be to have a chemical whose concentration was fixed at one end of the line , and this concentration decreased as one moved down the line . |
| 20 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |
| 21 | One holds up the east-west streets . |
| 22 | And that that one holds quite a lot |
| 23 | No one lives here no more , so it do n't matter . |
| 24 | The first one mentioned again the photograph I had sent : ‘ I 've almost gazed the gloss off the film by this time ! |
| 25 | Berwick Kaler gives a peculiarly charmless performance as the Pope , Frances de la Tour is wasting her time as the witch , and one wonders why the producers thought it was worth transferring this dismal exercise to the West End from the West Yorkshire Playhouse . |
| 26 | The Heinkel He 116 is a case in point ( D ) and one wonders why the company produced this fine poster of He 116A D-AJIE flying low over a Bavarian church spire . |
| 27 | One wonders where the Carthaginians were to whom Clitomachus distributed his consolation . |
| 28 | The Roman catholic hierarchy declared that they had no opposition to this particular change , but one wonders how the vote would have gone if they had . |
| 29 | One wonders how the scene compared with that in Domagk 's laboratory several years earlier , when the mice treated with Prontosil were alive and the controls had all died ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 30 | As we saw earlier , the technology of the time certainly could not have coped with a live street recording , so one wonders how the company got away with that . |