Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got to sit down one of these days … |
| 2 | Buckinghamshire are playing Leicestershire … just the day for a game of cup cricket … just the day for the local people to come out and see if their team could knock down one of the high and mighty … |
| 3 | Perhaps first off , I could give you all , er , you 've all filled in one of these evaluation sheets before on a course have n't you ? |
| 4 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 5 | Of 22 chosen flights , I failed to get on only six and was carried on one of the next two flights . |
| 6 | He was climbing down one of the young dunes , slowly , feeling with the butt of his spear like a blind man — a thing as substance less as a swirl of rain . |
| 7 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 8 | The Luggage came ambling down one of the other passages that radiated from the room . |
| 9 | She moved down one of the long aisles ; the body of the hall was in darkness and she stumbled a little as the floor sloped downwards . |
| 10 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 11 | Every time he found one he held all the flapping notices down one by one , and read through lists of hockey teams , and announcements of meetings to be held by religious societies . |
| 12 | As he was walking along one of the long , green-painted corridors he ran into John Postlethwaite . |
| 13 | It seemed to [ Judith ] that the emperor 's good physical condition might not last much longer , and his death would threaten danger to herself and to Charles unless they could win over one of Charles 's elder brothers to work with them , and they calculated that none of the emperor 's sons would fit this role so well as Lothar . |
| 14 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 15 | Not so , the managing director knew that Jefferson was knocking off one of the other director 's wives , but much worse than that there had been some really dirty work going on with Martinez . |
| 16 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 17 | But when I mentioned that there was a legendary tunnel that ran from the battlements of Beaufort down through the sheer rock to the bottom of the Litani gorge , they leapt to their feet and bounded up one of the staircases . |
| 18 | Erm there 's , they have n't added up one of the boxes , and I believe that in terms of erm its actual cost . |
| 19 | No-one could deny that it brought real benefit to Scotland , which built up one of the most advanced and successful electronics sectors in Europe . |
| 20 | She snatched up one of the spears racked handy beside the hearth , and her father ducked fast as it slashed just over his head into a tapestry hanging above the fire , cut a two-foot gash in Saint Peter 's side and raised a shower of sparks . |
| 21 | Riven had lost his in the river , but he snatched up one of the long river poles and stabbed it down on the crowds of hairy heads which thronged the water , clicking against skulls . |
| 22 | He had picked up one of the pups and examined it roughly before replacing it in the cardboard box with the others . |
| 23 | The whole situation seemed both tragic and also profoundly humiliating — as when she 'd picked up one of his sweaters , packed in her suitcase by mistake . |
| 24 | Or had a tourist picked up one of the cards she had lavishly distributed around the village shops and arrived to buy a souvenir ? |
| 25 | Eleven days ago these sides contrived to conjure up one of the really memorable Croke Park finals that wo n't be easily forgotten by those fortunate enough to have been present . |
| 26 | Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge . |
| 27 | ‘ We were doing some vocals and Damon ( Albarn ) was in one of his mad moods and was climbing up one of the acoustic screens they had in the studio . |
| 28 | If voices were to end at the same time as their canonic function ended they would fall out one by one , as in a round . |
| 29 | ‘ He did not want to go to prison , so he decided to try out one of the well-known methods of avoiding prison by offering his services as a police informer , ’ Mr Roberts said . |
| 30 | He drew back one of the chairs and proceeded to seat himself at the table opposite her . |