Example sentences of "[prep] every [adj] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So she got rid of every last one ? ’ |
| 2 | He loved Encyclopaedias ; especially the ones with the old pictures in , and he knew the names of every single one in the library . |
| 3 | And the artist took a bite out of every single one . |
| 4 | This train , like every other one , was packed to the doors , and when it was left in sidings periodically to allow trains of troops , and ammunition and essential war materials to plod by , the hum of conversation hung about the carriages almost tangibly . |
| 5 | We could take this illustration too far — but I would like you to look upon yourselves as conductors , setting the tempo of the class , listening and looking for every discordant note — and for every good one — helping by encouragement — and asking questions , for instance " Are you working as hard as you could ? " |
| 6 | Thus we produced a ratio of three sterile males for every normal one caught resting in the wild ; but we could detect little mating between sterile males and wild females . |
| 7 | Actually , I chew on a piece of mozzarella and merely wish that I 'd thought of bringing a silver pistol , because , let's face it , Dudley Moore played Patch the Elf in the 40-million-dollar Santa Claus — The Movie which unlike say Ishtar or Hudson Hawk , is consistently unbearable for every single one of its sad seconds . |
| 8 | Is n't it more likely to be wrong , because there are many possible incorrect statements for every true one ? |
| 9 | Those five gates of hell , he 'd be put through every single one of them . |
| 10 | Each strategy was paired off in turn with every other one ( including a copy of itself ) to play Iterated Prisoner 's Dilemma . |
| 11 | Each addressed location in one of my sperms corresponds to a particular addressed location in every other one of my sperms , and in every one of your eggs ( or sperms ) . |
| 12 | The net effect of the Acts of 1918 and 1921 was thus to improve the Unionist position by a hundred seats , not just in that parliament but in every succeeding one too . |
| 13 | As there is no possibility of any Government in the Community , certainly no British Government and certainly no Labour Government , not referring to their Parliament for a mandate before taking a step into entering monetary union , the opt-out clause simply codifies what will happen in any case , I believe , in every single one of the European Community democracies . |
| 14 | But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that . |
| 15 | If this was true , any piece of DNA was just like any other piece , whereas every gene must be different from every other one . |
| 16 | If the surface of the earth was covered to a depth of one metre in protein molecules , each one different from every other one , and if each molecule changed into another one once a second , and had done so since the origin of the earth , there would have been time to try out only a minute fraction of the possible sequences . |
| 17 | Somebody calculated that if the surface of the earth was covered with a layer of protein molecules a metre thick , right over the whole surface of the earth erm each one , each protein different from every other one , and let us suppose furthermore that each of these proteins had been changing once as second , uniquely , into some different kind ever since the formation of the earth , we would still have tried out only quite a small fraction of the available possible proteins a hundred amino acids long . |
| 18 | Okay No sorry I did n't make that clear erm mark every fifth put the number on every fifth one . |
| 19 | I did n't have the lowdown on every last one of these guys but presumably they were all bigshots . |
| 20 | but they 've got so much there 's eight tanks or something to every fucking one of ours |
| 21 | Do you have to listen to every single one of those tapes ? |
| 22 | ‘ She looked at every single one of the hundreds of photos and could n't stop smiling at the memory . |