Example sentences of "one [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | two , two shirts for wearing on the slopes , one pair , one pair for wearing in the evening , I 've got one shirt to go in and the one I 'm wearing as I , as I go out |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I know you 're on holiday and everything , ’ she rushed over one hurdle to take on another , ‘ and I really do n't want to intrude , but you said … ’ |
| 3 | To pick up a well they come here one afternoon to pick up a car . |
| 4 | So if I had if I had one course to go along and find approximately how many adverts for it ? |
| 5 | A spokeswoman for the US relief agency Care said on Nov. 12 that as many as 40 people might have died in a gunfight between guards and gunmen who ambushed a convoy of trucks heading for Baidoa north-west of Mogadishu laden with grain for starving people , forcing all but one truck to turn back . |
| 6 | The illusion of perspective can be enhanced by arranging the grain of one piece to run slightly obliquely to the horizon ( fig. 1 ) . |
| 7 | So were Mrs Patel 's , who had cocked her head on one side to listen better . |
| 8 | He lifted his head and put it slightly to one side to listen better . |
| 9 | Before the meeting took place , Pat Bellis took Kingston to one side to enquire just who it was who was spreading the ‘ split ’ rumours in Manchester . |
| 10 | This is set on one side to start again after emptying out your reward , the valuable compost . |
| 11 | One attempt to model only critical variables which determine yield has been made by Stocking and Pain ( 1983 ) where they concentrate upon the impact of erosive forces upon the availability of minimum moisture levels . |
| 12 | And the other reason they do n't want to turn up is primarily because they do know that we have compulsory purchase powers and the planning — the paper put forward by the Chief Planning Officer today was a vindication of wage for a good many years , a good many months rather , that we do have compulsory purchase powers and we are able to use them and it was specifically asked at the Panel today , by both Monty Finnist and Sir Monty Finnist and Tony Christopher , why does n't the City Council market this site and use its compulsory purchase powers and that 's one question to address tomorrow as a politician who could make that decision . |
| 13 | She had to convince herself that if she allowed her feelings for just one second to soar away untethered she 'd be doomed . |
| 14 | He allowed one eyelid to drop briefly . |
| 15 | One point to note here , the EQ can be programmed to appear in the distortion patch or not , as required , so a bright rhythm sound does n't mean a thin , weedy lead sound . |
| 16 | One point to clear up immediately is the widespread confusion between wrongful dismissal and unfair dismissal . |
| 17 | They required a large number of available sons and daughters , but there was no shortage of these , and hence — unlike among the French peasantry which required one and only one heir to take over the family holding — no strong incentive to birth control , except among the poor and struggling lower middle class . |
| 18 | But Shuckburgh 's long exposure to the whims and sensibilities of Eden and Churchill led him on at least one occasion to comment favourably on Eisenhower and Dulles as political leaders . |
| 19 | If there are any cancer cells not yet being attended to , I will give them just one minute to stand up . ’ |
| 20 | Once , when very drunk , Simon had phoned me late one night to try out a new concept , the ‘ Uzi-O-Gram ’ , which had the catchline ‘ Shoot up your girlfriend 's wedding , just for fun ! |
| 21 | She squatted beside him , as he propped himself up on one elbow to scowl back at her . |
| 22 | He leaned up on one elbow to gaze down at her and instead of Ruth feeling a rush of panic she felt incredibly calm . |
| 23 | He claimed that if he was appointed instead of Scott , both the Foreign and the India Offices ‘ are likely to be better and more quickly built ’ , as the two offices were too much for one architect to handle simultaneously . |
| 24 | Since it may not be possible for both sets of belief to be realised in action , if the courses of action are incompatible , it may be rational for one person to give up his/her autonomy . |
| 25 | This ensures continuity with more than one worker , where it may be difficult to find one person to live in permanently . |
| 26 | Acquiring a good interview technique is as important for people employing one person to work directly for them as it is for those who will be taking on large numbers to work for a company . |
| 27 | You may be the one person to bring about improvements which will benefit many others as well as yourself . |
| 28 | It only needs one person to pass on an infection . |
| 29 | Any number of people may be involved in these roles , whilst it would be quite normal for one person to fulfil more than one of these roles . |
| 30 | We are beginning to wonder what it what it takes to engage in good faith negotiations as a business with the state of California , if all it takes is one person to get up , make some kind of scurrilous allegations , and throw the entire bidding in into cast some kind of doubt upon it . |