Example sentences of "one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The matron had told him that they had removed one of my legs and were going to have the other one off the following day . |
| 2 | Of the temporary substitution of a vehicle for one off the road if there is no margin ( by letter enclosing identity disc of specified vehicle ) . |
| 3 | Oxford are one off the bottom in Conference A with only eight wins from 27 games . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , I know , but I thought there might be one off the MD 's office . |
| 5 | Right , can we leave that one then , the other one that I , I thought about is probably an oil disaster , here we have an oil tanker , what was that one off the , the north of America , do you remember where it was ? |
| 6 | He broke one off the bunch and held it out tentatively . |
| 7 | They draw a half dozen songs from their eponymous debut LP , plus one off the next album and encore with a cool-funk reading of ‘ Hey Joe ’ . |
| 8 | I picked up the stack of mail from the coffee-table and dealt myself one off the bottom : the envelope that contains my monthly bank statement , with its familiar brown matt and the wax seal like a blob of blood . |
| 9 | One has to travel through the middle of Cardiff , or through a curious maze that takes one off the western approaches , along the new dockland link road . |
| 10 | The fertiliser was discovered in two seizures , one in Anderstown and one off the Falls Road . |
| 11 | Can you think of one off the top of your head very quickly ? |
| 12 | They draw a half dozen songs from their eponymous debut LP , plus one off the next album and encore with a cool-funk reading of ‘ Hey Joe ’ . |
| 13 | They got one off the Welsh side in October in a 1-1 draw . |
| 14 | Southend are one off the bottom … but they 've given some of the top teams a run for their money this season … |
| 15 | Director Barbara Radcliffe showed me one off the old processes . |
| 16 | She got up and then when it came round to singing Jerusalem and Edie was put out at not singing Jerusalem , this is another one off the psychiatric list and Pat goes |
| 17 | So if you collide neutrons and protons , bang them one off the other , you can produce these mesons . |
| 18 | So I ran the real one through the xerox , got the stamp on that , then filled it in with a ‘ balance ’ of over £1,000 . |
| 19 | Nowadays , however , there is little clear principle to guide one through the maze of technical arguments . |
| 20 | The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising . |
| 21 | For the sheer joy of it , young Ben left the white path and trod a parallel one through the gilded grass , watching his black shoes turn yellow with the fallen pollen . |
| 22 | Indeed as we have seen economic equality in society could only be achieved under two kinds of circumstances — one through the use of coercion in which case it is incompatible with freedom and the other in a situation in which people do not respond or even care about material rewards . |
| 23 | McTaggart can not accept this Humean view because he can discover no relation between mental states which could determine the bundle to which they belong other than one through the self : ‘ We must say that those states , and those only , which are states of the same self form the bundle of parts of that self . ’ |
| 24 | We have two sets of rural initiatives — one through the Housing Corporation and one through local authorities . |
| 25 | I got a Liberal one through the post . |
| 26 | ‘ How about one for the happy couple ? ’ she suggested . |
| 27 | If you decide to use an insecticide , choose the most appropriate one for the affected plant and the pest concerned to avoid injuring beneficial insects . |
| 28 | Instead of the authorised prayer , he recited one for the dead . |
| 29 | Place a blob for each corner and one for the centre of each slab . |
| 30 | There 's two methods of policing , one for the decent people and one for the trouble-makers . |