Example sentences of "one [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that represents not one family but two family each one represents a number of children , the misery that this is causing absolutely immense . |
| 2 | I only found about one say a couple of awkward people , all the twenty years I was in Rhos-y-Bol . |
| 3 | In one place a television ‘ red head ’ ( 800 watt ) light set off the sprinkler system with hysterical results . |
| 4 | If one has a case of tetraplegia aggravated by exceptional features such as an exceptional degree of pain , the guideline figure will be increased . |
| 5 | Another recently asked my advice about the finer points of his own computer program so that he might catalogue more accurately his card collection , so vast had it become ( if any one has a mint Drummahoe No 1 , he would be most indebted ) . |
| 6 | There are two teams and each one has a jug of water . |
| 7 | Overlooking the village green , in a pretty conservation village , this fine Victorian house has a half-acre garden , two greenhouses ( one has a vine that produces heaps of succulent black grapes ) , a sunken-terraced garden with lily pond and an affectionate three-legged cat . |
| 8 | One has a dog 's head , another a boar 's head , a third a bull 's head and the fourth a bird 's head . |
| 9 | He was suspended for one match a year ago after a skirmish with West Ham 's Mitchell Thomas and in January was fined £1,500 for abusive gestures to fans before a match at Arsenal . |
| 10 | No one writing a report should be without a Roget 's Thesaurus . |
| 11 | Once the show was on , life was fairly easy with one show a night lasting from 8 till 11.30 pm seven days a week , and matinées on Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 12 | They were glad to be sent to Cannes to recuperate with only one show a night . |
| 13 | If one built a road a lot further out which is the case with the road shown in the structure plan key diagram , use of that road would represent a major diversion for local traffic , which would therefore be much less likely to use it . |
| 14 | Slow lingering illnesses may require only one remedy a day or less . |
| 15 | The first verbal description we have of this scene of Wagnerian grandeur dates from 1481 when William of Worcester ( despite his name a Bristolian born and bred ) described the camp on the Clifton side as ‘ founded before the time of William the Conqueror by Saracens or Jews or by one Ghyst a giant in the land . ’ |
| 16 | And there was only one cut a year . |
| 17 | The maximum radiation exposure of members of the public resulting from BNFL 's activities was also well below the level recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection of one millisievert a year . |
| 18 | On its first day the Congress , after acrimonious debate and procedural wrangling , rejected by only one vote a proposal to make the election of the Supreme Soviet Chairman one of its first agenda items . |
| 19 | The truth is that , while certainly many constitutional ideas have been borrowed from Britain , the British system contains features that no one designing a system of government today would conceivably want to adopt . |
| 20 | I had two saucepans , one containing a stew of some sort , the other pasta or potatoes . |
| 21 | The letter had destroyed at one blow a certainty so obvious that he had never even questioned it : his conception of the relationship between his parents . |
| 22 | The priest was preceded by a cross bearer and two young boys , one holding a bell , the other swinging a thurible . |
| 23 | The distance learning materials do not always reach the students when needed , and a survey indicated that they rarely received more than one visit a year from their supervisor because of the shortage of transport . |
| 24 | There are enough members in the North-East to demand at least one visit a season from their team . |
| 25 | While most residents were in fairly frequent contact with relatives and friends from outside the home , one in five of those who spent all the last twelve months of their lives in a home had either no visitors at all or less than one visit a month . |
| 26 | The composition of the painting and its original theme was developed from two ambitious watercolours of late 1908 entitled Carnaval au bistrot , which showed five figures , one wearing a harlequin 's hat and another a beret , disposed round a drop-leaved table ; the compositions of these watercolours are markedly horizontal . |
| 27 | Its name is a curious comment since it is situated beside the back garden of the Presidential palace , and boasts only one train a day . |
| 28 | In recognition one train a day during certain summer Sundays will be hauled by representatives of the collection . |
| 29 | One train a day will also take passengers on to Newcastle , calling at Sunderland and Hartlepool . |
| 30 | The Teesside TransPennine link is part of a series of changes now under way or in the pipeline for local services : — Northallerton and Thirsk will get hourly trains to York , Leeds , Manchester and Liverpool instead of two hourly ; — One train a day in each direction will take in Stockton , Hartlepool and Sunderland , terminating at Newcastle ; — The Monday to Saturday Darlington to Hartlepool service , barely used and regularly cancelled , will be axed next month . |