Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … |
| 2 | Of 22 chosen flights , I failed to get on only six and was carried on one of the next two flights . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 5 | The Luggage came ambling down one of the other passages that radiated from the room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 8 | As he was walking along one of the long , green-painted corridors he ran into John Postlethwaite . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It starts off one of the first things we did n't like was the title . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Erm there 's , they have n't added up one of the boxes , and I believe that in terms of erm its actual cost . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had picked up one of the pups and examined it roughly before replacing it in the cardboard box with the others . |
| 17 | Or had a tourist picked up one of the cards she had lavishly distributed around the village shops and arrived to buy a souvenir ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | He drew back one of the chairs and proceeded to seat himself at the table opposite her . |
| 23 | One very small piece could kill her , ’ shouted back one of the men . |
| 24 | You can get special surface-mounting boxes which have a slot to take mini-trunking , but if these are not available , simply run the mini-trunking up to the edge of the box and knock out one of the holes in the side . |
| 25 | Cognos has just about sorted out one of the big problems software companies with a proprietary platform background face when getting into Unix : pricing . |
| 26 | It was academic in any case , because the man reversed the automatic and used the butt to punch out one of the panes . |
| 27 | MORE THAN a thousand peace campaigners crowded into Trinity College , Dublin , last night to spell out one of the Irish capital 's most eloquent protests against IRA terrorism . |
| 28 | then you start here … in the world of karting … each and every sunday in the summer these little machines will be buzzing and blasting around one of the tracks in the country … |
| 29 | A woman 's face peered round one of the doors . |
| 30 | At the moment it was the traditional tale of going up to Jackson 's at 10 in the morning after an all-night session at Dobell 's — wine we drank in those days , Poppet , wine that was wine not this filthy MUCK — and demanding double portions of oysters all round and when it came to pay no one had a penny , so Dobell , who even then still had the charm of a boy of twenty , and a slim waist to go with it , said he would bring in one of the engravings from his collection , and Gaston , who always recognised a gentleman — not like the CLODS who run hostelries nowadays — with tears in his eyes said it was an honour , an honour to serve Mr Dobell and his friends . |