Example sentences of "one [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On rather boring walks on Hampstead Heath with a pram containing our younger brother , with Laura and my older sister , all sent out for air and exercise , Basil and I would enliven matters with long conversations , vying with one another over imaginary purchases of imaginary horses the one outstripping the other over the purchase price . |
| 2 | It was rather like being in charge of Tinkerbell , in that she was the one flashing the torch . |
| 3 | Or make one using a headboard kit from Cover Up and cover it with fabric . |
| 4 | But as he cut into one using a power saw , an alarm sounded , and he realised there 'd been a leak of radioactive tritium gas . |
| 5 | To show the unity of the two types of explanation , one using the analysis of class and the other the concept of racism , we turn to a study which proposes the concept of the underclass . |
| 6 | If there is not a group called Startup , you need to create one using the command File New Group . |
| 7 | Not one to shirk the product testing , she eats in the restaurants five times a week and , on some occasions , has a chef cook the entire menu for her . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 9 | No one asked the matron if she thought the boy might have done this to silence Charley rather than avenge his mother . |
| 10 | One asked the question : if the ‘ villa ’ had been a working farm , why was it not sited nearer the valley floor , where there were suitable arable areas and meadows ? |
| 11 | ‘ Haff you heard at aal apout a maan caald Menzies ? ’ one asked the other in a broad parody of the Gaelic accent . |
| 12 | The snag was that no one asked the CSU . |
| 13 | The phrase Stop me and Buy one became a household phrase . |
| 14 | Of the eleven who won the Cup for Manchester United in 1948 , most of whom were internationals and all in the first rank of senior professionals , five went into football coaching and management , three ran newsagents ' shops ( customers presumably enjoyed discussing the sports headlines with men who had once made them ) , two worked in factories , and one became a night-telephonist . |
| 15 | One joined the strike support committee ; several started going to branch meetings ; one became a shop steward and served in that capacity for five years . |
| 16 | No one became a nun did n't she ? |
| 17 | One became a pitbull Poodle as I approached with a coat , and Bizzie ( pictured here ) just froze . |
| 18 | Of the two genes produced by this original duplication , one became the ancestor of all the genes that make haemoglobin in vertebrates . |
| 19 | John Wildsen 's The Power of One fits the bill perfectly . |
| 20 | It is when one recognizes the variations in peasant advancement among even individuals in a single community , as well as from one village or one region to another , that one appreciates the need for caution in calling the fifteenth century the golden age of the English labourer . |
| 21 | Coffins and corpses are meant to biodegrade , the acidic content of one assisting the decomposition of the other ; they are destined for burial or deposit , hidden away from the eyes of mortal man , and there it is hoped they will remain . |
| 22 | But how does one make a living at it ? |
| 23 | This brings us to his third and final question , which is , should the law be used in all or some cases , and if only the latter , on what basis does one make the decision about where and when to intervene ? |
| 24 | We have argued for a revised theory of the relations between state and people : one reflecting the role of states in managing social relations and moral careers but one which recognises too that states , in representing a general or ‘ national ’ interest , have an important emotional significance . |
| 25 | One limited the powers of LEAs to pay for places in independent schools , another ( Section 10 ) encouraged the education of handicapped children in ordinary schools ( but see the 1981 Education Act ) . |
| 26 | The first order was one prohibiting the father from having any contact with the children and prohibiting the mother from allowing him to have contact with the children . |
| 27 | ‘ As it was your idea , perhaps you should be the one to drive the dog away . ’ |
| 28 | One understands the route as to why the erm Liberal Democrats wish to pursue that . |
| 29 | In those days no one surfed the North Shore . |
| 30 | Otherwise the syllable before the last one receives the stress : ‘ consonant ’ ; ‘ military ’ . |