Example sentences of "[v-ing] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a bright red chair in the corner , though — a soft , comfortable chair with silken cushions — another , smaller , matching one by the bed , and Jenna was quite entranced . |
| 2 | Succeeds in driving one in three directions ( 4 ) |
| 3 | Oh they were kicking up an awful fuss and I thought to myself now a cat 's tearing one to pieces , that 's the way it , what it sounded like , or two and they were , I could n't see quite out of the window but they were making a fuss on the wall by Diane 's |
| 4 | These components of intonation are found as elements in sequences of other such elements occurring one after another ( never simultaneously ) . |
| 5 | The National Trust is responsible for protecting one in every six miles of coastline in England , Wales and Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | It was a stupid thing , he thought , three gold baubles on springs that set up a continual motion , banging one against the other , and he kept it on his desk only to please her . |
| 7 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 8 | avoid doing it because the revenue are checking one in twenty cases , and if you 've got a partner who 's likely to pay , not to pay tax , that 's fine , if they are likely to roll over into tax , then do n't use an R eighty five . |
| 9 | This is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘ union ’ and is part of the Hindu philosophy of self-discipline which teaches self-control , with the aim of becoming one with the impersonal god force . |
| 10 | People who are not willing to leave their families , both physically and psychologically , have great difficulty in actually becoming one with their partners . |
| 11 | There was a murmur of assent and the wise , strange heads were dipped in the gesture of acknowledgement they had used earlier and the Tree Spirits moved away , not quite fading into the gloom of the forest , but somehow becoming one with it . |
| 12 | Rachel … ! ’ as though he was going mad , and he began to enter her , making her clutch at his body , gasping , becoming one with him , overwhelmed with emotion as her pulse grew faster , louder , harder … |
| 13 | If you are a mother-to-be or planning on becoming one in the near future join Harpers & Queen On Location on Wednesday 11 April for our Maternity Workshops at Harrods , Knightsbridge , SW1 . |
| 14 | It is recognised in planning circles that planning applications for fish and chip shops are contentious and it has been said that whilst ‘ Joe Public wants hot food shops he does not want them near him and he is prepared to fight tooth and nail to stop anyone opening one near his house ’ . |
| 15 | Instead of upholding one at the expense of the other , Bachelard offers the possibility of a deconstructive history which would reinscribe that which had been excluded ; this could also enable a differential history of science and ideology , accounting for the perpetuation of ideology after the production of science . |
| 16 | Because social changes which can be fitted into comparatively lengthy processes are yoked together with some structures in a single category , much of the history of conjonctures consists in relating one to another . |
| 17 | You 're eliminating one at a time . |
| 18 | That 's not all the way round , that 's just multiplying one by the other . |
| 19 | Is he that funny looking one over there ? ’ |
| 20 | The girls , looking one to the other , darting hate , hardly three foot tall , arose and walked down to the front of the class . |
| 21 | The man took out two small whistles and , pushing one into each corner of his mouth , began to play a strange , rhythmic , haunting tune . |
| 22 | In general L and P are not equal and it is therefore reasonable to ask if there are theoretical reasons for favouring one over the other . |
| 23 | I signed obediently , asking their names and writing one for each . |
| 24 | The company may already have a mainframe computer with a data processing department and the manager might suggest that some potentially suitable software packages be evaluated and that obtaining a ready-made package should be considerably less expensive than writing one from scratch . |
| 25 | The chimney swift of Asia manages to collect twigs by flying at a branch , seizing one with its beak and breaking it off by the sheer force of its aerial velocity . |
| 26 | I mean it 's like imagining one without the wheel or something . |
| 27 | Fitting one to an Amstrad 2000 series is particularly easy because you can slide off the back panel and plug the hardcard in without having to open the case . |
| 28 | Avoid fitting one in the kitchen , as fumes from cooking are often enough to activate the alarm . |
| 29 | Yet , when she found him , more or less alone in the bar parlour although she was aware of Ned O'Mara somewhere nearby , she could n't stop talking , words rushing out of her , spilling one over the other , over and over " Please , please , oh please , you can help me if you want to , I know you can , and I 'll go mad you see if they take my little boy away , because he 's not-not just as he should be — more delicate than he should be . |
| 30 | She 's probably picking one with Wendy , but she 's picked the wrong one with me cos I know too many loop holes ! |