Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] one [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said it one of the guitar magazines I use my all the time before , before winding up for a gig , and all this sees for wrecking one of the guitars ! |
| 2 | The sheriff 's reply sounded clearly in the hushed corridor , impressing the assembled kids and seeming to confirm Grant 's claim to be part of an official police operation — if any needed convincing after seeing one of the feared Apostles being dragged unconscious into an empty cubicle . |
| 3 | Many of the current members joined up after catching one of the club 's many demonstrations , or parents came to the Royal Commonwealth Pool to see what their kids were actually up to — and stayed . |
| 4 | VICENTE Fernandez won the English Open at The Belfry after sinking one of the longest putts ever to win a golf title . |
| 5 | There was a brief recovery with a 3–1 home win over Fulham , Ellison scoring with a superb chip for one of the goals , but McCarrison blotted his copybook by getting himself sent off for retaliation after scoring one of the goals . |
| 6 | Collins ignored the tiredness he felt after scoring one of the goals which defeated Rangers to accompany team-mate Tom Boyd to Scotland 's base at Dunkeld last night . |
| 7 | MARTINA NAVRATILOVA was forced to reconsider her Wimbledon preparations after suffering one of the most humiliating defeats of her career last night . |
| 8 | He was only apprehended after giving one of the detectives searching his home a hefty kick up the backside ! |
| 9 | You take it for granted one of the maids will come in and tidy it for you . |
| 10 | There is even an echo of the testing time of his twelfth year in the fourth book in the sequence , The Betrayer , when he has to find a way of helping one of the Confederates , involved in a misguided conspiracy against the young Emperor , without being disloyal to his ruler . |
| 11 | Bending and brushing away overhanging thorn branches , I sidled through the water in vain hopes of seeing one of the otters that lived here , according to Mrs Knelle . |
| 12 | And in the process of unloading one of the bundles , it split open and the manager found the cannabis concealed inside it . |
| 13 | Let's be honest with ourselves ; I 'm a small but vital link in the business of producing one of the most important daily newspapers in the world . |
| 14 | This will help towards satisfying one of the main goals of the new strategy : to maintain American troops and interest in Europe . |
| 15 | They concluded that , especially in relation to fluvial processes , explanations that ignore the role of human activities run the risk of eliminating one of the most significant variables and perhaps an appropriate note on which to end this chapter is their affirmation that ( Graf , Trimble , Toy and Costa , 1980 , p. 281 ) : |
| 16 | PIETER Muller read the messages of hate , shrugged and got on with the job of becoming one of the best centres in the world . |
| 17 | Right from indie godhead McGee 's Madonna invite to the fact that Therapy ? — once a hopeless band from Belfast — are on the verge of becoming one of the three most important new bands in Britain . |
| 18 | At Forest , in the nightmare season 81–82 , he had fallen into all the usual high earning traps , plus the unusual one of becoming one of the city 's leading gay scene makers . |
| 19 | It was presided over by Ernest Ayliffe who had retired as President at the beginning of Congress , but had accepted the honour of becoming one of the BDDA 's first " Grand Councillors " . |
| 20 | For example , having gone straight ahead without referring to the chart gallery I created the default Pie Chart and was dissatisfied because I could find no way of exploding one of the slices . |
| 21 | Even more importantly , as Mikhail Gorbachev gradually allows so many officially forgotten barbarisms from the Soviet Union 's past to slide into the glare of public scrutiny , so the prospect grows of solving one of the post-war era 's most persistent enigmas . |
| 22 | Yeah , but it 's very , it 's well , can , I do n't suppose it can be , I might of had one of the speakers out but I know there in the back of the speakers , you had this loft insulation it 's full of that |
| 23 | When Topaz had first seen the two men riding close to where she was lying behind some rocks , the idea of appropriating one of the horses had n't occurred to her . |
| 24 | Delivery and not assignation is the proper mode of divesting one of a certificate : Clift v. Portobello Pier Cia . |
| 25 | Sometimes , this is the result of observing one of the above terms ( designs , subjects etc. ) as it is submerged within another ; on other occasions it is the result of observing barely perceptible changes in one of these terms between different mosaics . |
| 26 | The thought of asking one of the Royal family for money to breed owls seemed a bit out of order ; however , Suzy explained that the scheme was designed to help young people just like myself set up projects or businesses which are of benefit to the local community , as well as themselves . |
| 27 | He 'd once thought of asking one of the Venetz sisters out , but they were pretty well inseparable ; a turndown did n't worry him so much as the prospect of being accepted by one and so giving offence to the other . |
| 28 | He 'd been thinking of asking one of the two who had entered the front room during Slater 's monologue — the more attractive of them — for a dance even as Slater was telling him how desirable Richard Slater was . |
| 29 | On the other hand Oxford received a three for Russian despite having one of the best collections of Slavica in Western Europe . |
| 30 | Production-wise , Lawrence considered the obvious step of recruiting one of the '70s luminaries to the studio seat but found his aspirations nixed by circumstance . |