Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she saw him , hanging on to one of the many bracing beams that ran horizontally across the Lock gates . |
| 2 | Sit in on one of my lessons . |
| 3 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 4 | There 's still a couple of beat up chairs there and I sit down in one of them . |
| 5 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 6 | Those are the first ones you contact but you still have to sit down with one of the estate agents and say , Well look what sort of business do you give them ? |
| 7 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 8 | Resentfully Kate took it from him before moving to sit down on one of the sofas . |
| 9 | It swooped down on one of the dogs and was standing on its chest with its beak at her throat . |
| 10 | It , it worked out , my mum at first thought it were n't too bad cos she got in with one of these special offer things . |
| 11 | He dropped ice into his glass and crossed to sink down into one of the nearby sofas . |
| 12 | Goes in at one of his ears and out at the other . |
| 13 | The sort of problems the owners ’ party have had on this trip so far are a tap that wo n't stop dripping , a blind that wo n't stay down in one of the bedrooms , eh ? , and a lady who thought one of her suitcases had been stolen , only it turned up in someone else 's room . ’ |
| 14 | Er an and the the bloke who did it erm has got to go down as one of the ratbags of the year . |
| 15 | In the garage Mr Carbert said he noticed an old rope hanging down from one of the beams . |
| 16 | The juveniles could be brought into a place of safety and passed along to one of the agencies for intensive counselling , but the rest of them — those over eighteen , and who were neither obviously offending nor mentally ill — were free agents . |
| 17 | Consultants are bound to fall down on one of these . ’ |
| 18 | Suppose , for example , you 've been given a problem to work on by one of your teachers . |
| 19 | My feet were sore , I was roasted like Sunday pork , and I did n't even have the money to leap on to one of the buses that flashed past me . |
| 20 | Robyn dumped her holdall on to the floor and sank on to one of the chintzy sofas . |
| 21 | By sheer good luck , the first desk she had tried had informed her that yes , a Lori Templeton was booked on to one of their flights . |
| 22 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 23 | And you do n't have to have a history degree to come along to one of these things ? |
| 24 | And you do n't have to have a history degree to come along to one of these things ? |
| 25 | Gaining the peaceful emptiness of her mother 's large sitting-room , with its windows overlooking the spectacular view over the water to Fort St Angelo , she sank down into one of the green chintz sofas and took stock of herself . |
| 26 | job to get out the house for a little while and she usually gets granny up , cos granny have to come down on one of those chairs . |
| 27 | At that time I had some interest in advertising and marketing , so I decided to get people I knew in some of the big stores to come down to one of our towns . |
| 28 | While the rest of the humans bent down by one of the flat tyres it strolled up to the gate , fiddled the teeth of the pliers on to the padlock , and squeezed . |
| 29 | She made her way up to the hotel bedroom and was let in by one of the porters . |
| 30 | As each emerges , it is received by a worker and carried off to one of the nursery chambers , there to be carefully cherished . |