Example sentences of "one [noun] and [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went along there one afternoon and stuck my head round the door ; saw two men in the sort of office you 'd expect of solicitors — box files in neat rows and shelf upon shelf of law reports . |
| 2 | Put the shingle in one bucket and fill it with cold water . |
| 3 | Then , as Fiver stirred and muttered beside him , he pushed him gently with one fore-paw and nuzzled his shoulder . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It happened so fast and so drastically that I nearly slid after him , managing only instinctively to pivot on one foot and throw myself headlong back onto the boards still remaining solid behind the hole . |
| 6 | Crows and tits hold small seeds in one foot and hammer them open with their beaks . |
| 7 | Cardus finished all but one GP and won his first at Le Mans , France . |
| 8 | First we raise one index and contract it with the remaining covector index to give . |
| 9 | I checked my camera to see if it was still in one piece and stuffed it back inside my overalls . |
| 10 | Geraldine checked no one was looking , took one daffodil and dropped it over a wall into a garden . |
| 11 | She pulled out one card and handed it over , extending it between two outstretched fingers — as if amnesia was catching . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 'm just gon na pack them in one bedroom and leave them there . |
| 14 | He let the mattress sag to one side and clutched his scalp , swaying dizzily for a moment . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Woolley called the replacements to one side and asked them if they had flown an SE before . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | He held his massive head to one side and raised his ears . |
| 19 | The big dog cocked his head to one side and raised his ears . |
| 20 | He frowned , put his head slightly to one side and lifted it , trying to look round and over her head . |
| 21 | He digested what she said by twisting his head to one side and pushing his spectacles higher up his nose . |
| 22 | After the first melting mouthful reminded her how hungry she was , it was much easier to push disturbing visions and hurt-filled memories to one side and devote her attention to the food . |
| 23 | He flung his head to one side and muttered something , his face was twisted up ; he pushed himself away and fell out through the entrance and on to his knees , and she sat down on the floor for her legs felt weak and the wounded one was throbbing painfully , and she crawled over to Sycorax and lay down beside her and sobbed hot , dry grief until she at last fell asleep . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Eddie cocked her head on one side and pursed her lips . |
| 26 | He put his head on one side and regarded her . |
| 27 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 28 | As he kissed her again he slowly felt for the gusset of her panties , pulled them to one side and entered her expertly . |
| 29 | Just as we were about to leave , Frank Dick called me to one side and gave me a blistering reprimand . |
| 30 | She cocked her head on one side and gave me a long scrutiny , almost as though she had never seen me before . |