Example sentences of "one [noun] and [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put the shingle in one bucket and fill it with cold water . |
| 2 | The companies had sought to merge their fleets on the currently lucrative Dover , Folkestone and Ramsgate routes to France which would have fixed prices at one level and allowed them to operate a single timetable . |
| 3 | Crows and tits hold small seeds in one foot and hammer them open with their beaks . |
| 4 | First we raise one index and contract it with the remaining covector index to give . |
| 5 | I checked my camera to see if it was still in one piece and stuffed it back inside my overalls . |
| 6 | Geraldine checked no one was looking , took one daffodil and dropped it over a wall into a garden . |
| 7 | She pulled out one card and handed it over , extending it between two outstretched fingers — as if amnesia was catching . |
| 8 | It is much better to have one review and to have it at the beginning of the Parliament , and that is exactly what we shall do . |
| 9 | I 'm just gon na pack them in one bedroom and leave them there . |
| 10 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 11 | Woolley called the replacements to one side and asked them if they had flown an SE before . |
| 12 | When I came to be searched , an earnest young man asked me : ‘ Please could you leave the paper on one side and pick it up afterwards ? ’ |
| 13 | He frowned , put his head slightly to one side and lifted it , trying to look round and over her head . |
| 14 | She stood up to walk stiffly around the desk , glaring at him as he stepped politely to one side and let her precede him from the room . |
| 15 | He put his head on one side and regarded her . |
| 16 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 17 | As he kissed her again he slowly felt for the gusset of her panties , pulled them to one side and entered her expertly . |
| 18 | Just as we were about to leave , Frank Dick called me to one side and gave me a blistering reprimand . |
| 19 | She cocked her head on one side and gave me a long scrutiny , almost as though she had never seen me before . |
| 20 | Richards recognises that , saying : ‘ This could be seen as an unsettling tactic and I 've asked Trevor Francis to take David Hirst on one side and put him fully in the picture . |
| 21 | I will extract those to one side and say they not really followers of the hunt , they are probably some weird faction that latch onto these type of things during erm these issues . |
| 22 | As I turned , my shoulder struck the pole , pushing it sharply to one side and knocking him off-balance . |
| 23 | Only when the head of accounting ( ’ an ‘ acceptable ’ woman 's role ’ ) took her to one side and showed her the company 's payroll did she realise that while she was bringing in the most revenue , she was being paid the smallest salary . |
| 24 | Using the yeast model , they have demonstrated different effects with different degrees of succussion and have also shown that the rest period between finishing the succussion of one potency and sampling it for dilution to prepare the next potency is important . |
| 25 | And lastly , Geoffrey , is it fair to lump the English , the Scots , the Irish and the Welsh together in one compartment and call them British ? |
| 26 | Mr Biggs , an angler for 20 years , said : ‘ Some anglers are a bit unscrupulous and are taking fish from one stretch and putting them in their own waters so they can make big catches . |
| 27 | I 'm sure you 've also experienced sessions you thought something somebody 's delivered in one session and found it really interesting you 've got a lot from it , and yet somebody else comes into the same subject matter and you think that you know was n't very interesting did n't , you know , did n't , I did n't really wanting to learn . |
| 28 | I played one lad and beat him in three successive frames . |
| 29 | Another point relates to the fact that , in the first case , the jury acquitted the defendants of one charge and convicted them of Both charges arose out of the same facts . |
| 30 | He noticed that the man was missing one eye and asked him how he had lost it . |