Example sentences of "to one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Rotring set has a grey scale of five colours and two flesh tones as opposed to one with the Winsor & Newton product . |
| 2 | Where Basque and Catalan nationalists agree , at least in private , is in preferring a deal with the Socialists to one with the People 's Party , even though both are themselves fairly conservative . |
| 3 | Erm , I think you should involve them but I think it 'll be preferable if it was one to one with the form tutor i that time and the form tutor has taking an over-view |
| 4 | So be here tomorrow at five to one for the Kaye and Angus Lunchtime Show . |
| 5 | This frontal assault on goal , he explained to the Examiner , was held to be a ‘ more deadly , if less spectacular , method ’ than the ‘ senseless policy of running along the lines and centring just in front of the goalmouth , where the odds are nine to one on the defenders ’ . |
| 6 | Four years before the Americans had won three games to one on the first morning . |
| 7 | B.C. , who won the 27th final 35–3 , were thankful to be ahead by three penalties to one at the interval against a Newfoundland XV that showed a little respect for a line-up that included World Cup players in Dan Jackart , Ron Vanden Brink , Jeff Knauer , Roy Radu , Steve Gray and Tom Woods . |
| 8 | He pushed Gustafsson to five sets — and led two sets to one at the traditional break — before finally succumbing in another classic . |
| 9 | The City Corporation had specified a maximum plot ratio of five to one across the whole site ( that is , the equivalent of five storeys ) . |
| 10 | But his views were dismaying to one of the readers of his discourses , the poet and artist William Blake . |
| 11 | In the second book , a photograph is spoken of which ‘ shows the pulling down of a monument to one of the Shahs ( father or son ) in Teheran or some other Iranian city . |
| 12 | Families with children tend to be restricted , for their main holiday , to one of the three main school breaks . |
| 13 | Catering & Allied came up with a novel solution : copy the stock file on to one of the two 128k data packs which fit into the back of a Psion Organiser , update that file ‘ on the hoof ’ ; and copy the updated file back to the desktop computer . |
| 14 | I took the flowers over to one of the sinks and put them in it . |
| 15 | He went in to speak to one of the tellers . |
| 16 | Though applied to others of a given authority or holiness , it refers principally to one of the most influential personages in Ashkenazi ( eastern European ) Judaism , who followed the Palestinian traditions ( as opposed to the Babylonian ones represented in its version of the Talmud ) : Israel ben Eliezer ( Leonard 's spiritual forebear , after whom he was named ) — an 18th century Pole , the founder of the Hasidic movement ; one whose religious awareness was very close to that which inspired Leonard , his mother and his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein . |
| 17 | I could have gone to one of the libraries or museums , art galleries … |
| 18 | The high–capacity wagons would be worked to one of the refineries at Thames Haven . |
| 19 | So a driver could listen , for example , to one of the BBC national networks , while the set automatically switches temporarily to a local station making a traffic announcement . |
| 20 | This is true , and points to one of the central problems in institutionalized literary pedagogy . |
| 21 | And during the years when Pound was most under Yeats 's influence , Pound too embraced this ideal — as when in 1912 he went with Yeats and some others to pay an act of homage to one of the last English representatives of the type , the Sussex squire Wilfred Scawen Blunt : |
| 22 | The last thing we want is to lose our independence to one of the big five . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Clubs will get on the box , ’ he says , ‘ if they are doing well and at home to one of the big boys . |
| 24 | Instantly , I knew the article would be irresistible : a glorious return to one of the most famous , and fatuous , lines ever uttered by a presidential candidate debating with his opponent . |
| 25 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 26 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 27 | As I was leaving the house Pat shouted after me , ‘ Piper , your friend Taff who shares the trench with you in the orchard has been transferred to one of the Commando units around the village . |
| 28 | Taff did not seem to mind going to one of the forward units . |
| 29 | I spoke to one of the medics , he informed me that the attack on the village just along the road was under way and already there were many casualties , particularly among 6 Commando , due to the heavy shelling from the Allied and German guns . |
| 30 | The Way runs next to one of the best preserved bronze age enclosures on Dartmoor at Grimspound . |