Example sentences of "[vb past] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The madrigalist John Wilbye [ q.v. ] dedicated one set of published madrigals to Arabella Stuart [ q.v. ] and the other to Sir Charles Cavendish , the earl 's younger brother , who was himself connected by marriage to the Kytsons , Wilbye 's patrons at Hengrave Hall . |
| 2 | The charges allege that on various occasions over the 14 months to August last year at the home , she assaulted one woman by throwing her from her bed on to a chair then a commode , putting her in a bath against her will and pulling her along a corridor , and of assaulting the second woman in a similar manner by throwing her from her bed on to a wheelchair and then a commode , dragging her across a room and tying her to a chair . |
| 3 | Gino 's chipper in Duke Street , near where she normally boarded her tram after work , charged one penny for a bag of crispy batter , and if you were lucky , there might be a nice piece of fish , or a stray lump of white pudding hiding among the golden , greasy flakes . |
| 4 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 5 | The laxative dose was gradually decreased after two to three months to a dose that maintained one bowel movement daily . |
| 6 | Cash only contributed one song to the second Highwaymen album , Highwayman 2 , a number called Songs that Make a Difference . |
| 7 | Martha stood patiently for a long time while her mother tried one dress after another on her , hoping to find a colour that made her skin seem paler and a cut that disguised her skeletal proportions . |
| 8 | Tim tried one night of Soho strip clubs , but the smell of smoke and the avid faces of the watchers who all seemed much older than himself depressed him , and he left without trying any of phone numbers which annoyed the clerk . |
| 9 | Even if the case is founded on a real-life situation , we only know what happened when the organization tried one solution . |
| 10 | Er er he tried one time , he 'd got his daddy 's photograph and he was actually trying to draw his father from the photograph |
| 11 | I mean if we tried one bag of that for a fiver . |
| 12 | ‘ Join forces with us , ’ invited one witch called Ian , ‘ and try to understand us … try to find out what we really believe in . |
| 13 | In 1950 , the CBF visited one woman , then aged twenty-three , and her son . |
| 14 | I visited one farm that obtained permission to convert a barn for use as a place to pack boxes . |
| 15 | Tranmere 's John Aldridge then blazed a 50th minute penalty over the top , but Steve Mungall headed one back 11 minutes later . |
| 16 | So I cut out a straight section of wire coat hanger , heated one end until it was cherry red , hammered it flat , then , when it cooled , filed the edges smooth and drilled a small hole in it . |
| 17 | They want the flightpath moved one mile to the west . |
| 18 | Nathan moved one shoulder in a semi-shrug . |
| 19 | Then he subsequently moved one person from the ground floor onto the first floor , which meant that he did require a fire certificate . |
| 20 | He moved one hand and tilted her face . |
| 21 | The public service super-union Unison moved one step closer yesterday when the union Nupe voted to back its creation at its annual conference in Scarborough . |
| 22 | PILKINGTON moved one step closer to vertical integration yesterday after its £95 million acquisition of Heywood Williams 's merchanting and distribution business , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 23 | In the growing queue for the buffet on the Cheshire Cheese , the passengers moved one place nearer the long-awaited ham and tomato sandwich in stony silence . |
| 24 | Anyway they were born one place and moved one place and then they come to after I were born . |
| 25 | Hamish moved one arm up to indicate they should move down the corridor to where they could see the exciting zinc-silicoborates . |
| 26 | ’ He moved one arm cautiously . |
| 27 | Mandy mused one evening as she and Charity sat out on their rickety porch eating salads and sweating . |
| 28 | Philip cast one glance at him , observed the signs , and thought better of making any demands on him . |
| 29 | He , as a rag doll , contorted , controlled by invisible strings , jerked one way and then the other and the sewer filled up high , not a half-foot from the top of the walls , so that his tumble , when he fell into the swamp , it was more a plop than a splash . |
| 30 | Meh'Lindi jerked one hand — in salute , or as a warning to stay away from her ? — then she surged ahead . |