Example sentences of "one [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , they may not accept the beliefs , attitudes , or intentions that are expressed ; one can always object to what somebody else says , but it does not make much sense to do this unless one understands its meaning . |
| 2 | However much the relative values of particular substances vary from one culture to another , each one owes its status to physical attributes . |
| 3 | The remaining two use many sources and one undertakes its own detailed analyses which are done regularly not only for the planning process but for general economic surveys of geographical areas , industries etc . |
| 4 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 5 | Of the two highest referring practices , only one reduced its referral rate and then only by a relatively small amount . |
| 6 | Ultimately one admires its naturalness , its ability simply to relay the balance and range that Rattle has fashioned from the podium ( or so it seems ) , but it takes a little while . |
| 7 | They stand out in a city that seems , until one discovers its finer corners , architecturally roughhewn . |
| 8 | No one know its cause , but current theories favour a viral agent transmitted in blood . |
| 9 | When an active fang is ripped out , the next most mature one takes its place and quickly develops so that it is ready to fire . |
| 10 | It may also have taken business away from John Smiths , because one enters its sales area straight off the street , whereas Smiths ' comparable sections are well above pavement level . |
| 11 | According to one , data especially on output for the immediate post land reform period were later corrected and adjusted by officials causing one to question its credibility . |
| 12 | One waved its hand . |
| 13 | He equated them to colours , with each one having its opposite , like joy and sadness or acceptance and disgust . |
| 14 | He was often thus overcome by frivolous manias ; Du Camp waited for this one to run its course like a fever . |
| 15 | It 's always the first tree to leaf and it 's also the first one to shed its leaves in the area and all the neighbouring horse chestnut trees , which presumably we did n't tamper with have stayed prolific . |
| 16 | Like most gusts of pleasure , this one brought its pain . |
| 17 | One suspects its high rating owes less to a fondness for social-democratic parties with close trade-union links than to a loose wish for economic efficiency plus social justice . |
| 18 | The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect . |
| 19 | One-third of sufferers will never experience a second episode , but for the rest it may be a lifetime 's struggle against repeated attacks , each one taking its toll . |
| 20 | It grasped — as one hopes its successors have — that the pressure to bring military potential to bear may be more important than military potential itself . |
| 21 | Certainly the physical part of our being is the most obvious and no one denies its existence . |
| 22 | The kind of testimony which makes sense of and verifies ‘ backs ’ is one involving its related activities . |
| 23 | The second chapel became the meeting hall after the third one took its place in 1900 . |
| 24 | The old one did its job , not perfectly but well enough to justify its existence . |
| 25 | Bright flowers bloomed , were drowned with snow , then shoots of oak twisted into the new light , grew serenely upwards , fought each other like beasts , tentacles entwined , one overpowering its companions , crushing them , then looming large in Tallis 's view . |
| 26 | We must create a fresh one to take its place , as a counter to one billion Chinese , and we shall control the new Russian state . |
| 27 | Tom Stonier , in Wealth of information gives a neat and explicit reason for educating young people in the uses of new technology , when he states , " An educated workforce learns how to exploit new technology ; an ignorant one becomes its victim " . |
| 28 | but no one regretted its effect on the red bitch or mourned her loss . |
| 29 | Each one had its own iron fireplace and every week Endill would help his mother clean them , making sure they were free of mould and little insects . |
| 30 | One had its ribs kicked in through its lungs … leastways that wuz his opinion of how it prob'ly happened . |