Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 2 | I was n't there very long cos I only went in one class in Road School . |
| 3 | I even came across one stretch of the old defence works which has had a rugby pitch squeezed into it , with a glacis for a touch line . |
| 4 | Even when she was well , I had never been able to relax because I never knew from one day to the next how I was going to find her . |
| 5 | But I never knew from one week to the next if there would be any money . |
| 6 | I NEVER thought for one moment that my life would become bound up with rivers . |
| 7 | Although the sides of the flysheet moved in high winds I never felt for one minute it would take off . |
| 8 | I never stayed in one job for longer than a month . |
| 9 | I spent so much effort and expense to outbid my rivals , I never stopped for one moment to consider if I really wanted the prize . |
| 10 | These schemes , which originally ran for one year , have now been extended to two years . |
| 11 | She only asked for one word to be removed . ’ |
| 12 | She quickly looked from one clock to the other . |
| 13 | She may also be helped to understand that if she is willing to try to spread the love she once gave to one person around to others who may be badly in need of it , she will move into an entirely different dimension emotionally : one that will provide her with new satisfactions and in which she will discover that the lovers of this world are not only those who enjoy a close and exclusive relationship . |
| 14 | This frequently necessitated the redistribution and scattering of men who formerly worked in one department and under one roof . |
| 15 | The larger , bolder birds such as magpies , crows and jackdaws were searching for food on the fairways — on one occasion a golf ball landed near to a crow who nonchalantly moved to one side to avoid the missile . |
| 16 | ‘ We never dreamt for one moment it was the woman next door , ’ she said . |
| 17 | It was now 9.00am , they only had about one hour 's fuel left , enough for 180 miles at the most . |
| 18 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 19 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 20 | He deftly stepped to one side , the bear tore into the cabin . |
| 21 | Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross . |
| 22 | Mattlock 's business judgement was vindicated by Cotton Town 's sales : it only went into one printing . |
| 23 | A lot of chemical reactions are actually reversible , but the tend to be mainly going very much in one direction , so we just say we just write it as though it only went in one direction . |
| 24 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 25 | He then laid the tape across the diameter so that it exactly stretched from one side of the circle to the other . |
| 26 | ’ She narrowed her eyes , then tilted her head slightly , indicating the warrant card he still held in one hand . |
| 27 | The contrast with Ben Lowe , the blushing withdrawn original founder whom he increasingly pushed to one side , could not have been more marked . |
| 28 | Originally a sial crust had enveloped the earth , but it then split on one side and compressed into the solid mass of the present-day continents . |
| 29 | In Cairo on Oct. 24 , he then went for one day to Damascus , meeting President Assad of Syria , and returned unexpectedly to Egypt on Oct. 26 . |
| 30 | Certainly , he never looked for one moment as though there were a dose of castor oil beneath his nose . |