Example sentences of "on one [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house . |
| 2 | On one level it is yet another accident , and on a second level it is inevitable , it must be so because it belongs here and nowhere else , as the foreign restaurant bill belongs to a novel about human birds of passage , and as the whistle belongs to a novel , in fact the only late Dostoevsky novel , with no children in it but haunted by the toys of absent innocence and peace : the governor of ‘ our province ’ where these crazy terrible events take place was disappointed in love as a young man and consoled himself by making a paper theatre with curtains , actors , audience , orchestra , conductor — the lot . |
| 3 | On one level it would be difficult to argue that the kinds of interventionist policies supported by the report were ever carried out in Brixton : such inner-city areas as this suffered from declining public-sector resources in the mid-1980s . |
| 4 | On one level it is hard to see how we can avoid reproducing this contradictory space when speaking of the inner city as a place , a fusion of social problems . |
| 5 | On one level it works as a straight crime whodunnit . |
| 6 | So I think there 's something that is alive , yes , although in , er on one level it is a fox or some other creature outside there . |
| 7 | On one level I suppose climbing the south-west face of Everest was the biggest and most complete expedition , but in spite of our being successful , one member of the team died on the second summit attempt . |
| 8 | On one level I knew that Robert had been unfaithful to Lili and on another I knew that he could n't possibly have been . |
| 9 | On one level you may be preoccupied with establishing greater financial stability but what may be equally as pressing is finding a real sense of belonging and a deep emotional rapport with a partner . |
| 10 | On one level you can ask , not so much democracy within the school , but the question of accountability to the community it serves — who should run the school , how much should parents be involved , what 's the role of Governors ? |
| 11 | She wanted to hate him , and on one level she did , but part of her still wanted him , and that seemed the worst betrayal of all . |
| 12 | There seems to be a law in human behaviour that people , in the end , get what they want , and there can be little doubt that Eliot would not have acquired the eminence which he now enjoyed unless on one level he had sought it : he said , in an address delivered during this period , that " … things sometimes become possible if we want them enough . " |
| 13 | On one occasion they were so preoccupied with their discussion , driving from Montreal to Toronto , that they failed to notice how low in petrol they had become . |
| 14 | The trio of actors became close off set , though with Fonda a committed monogamist , Hopper and Nicholson often went off into the night ; on one occasion they shared a memorable experience with LSD , so memorable , in fact , that both men have chosen , separately , to recall it in detail , as best they could . |
| 15 | On one occasion they called at the school-house for tea , leaving the dog outside in the car . |
| 16 | On one occasion they got so swollen headed that they were charging the children a penny each to try on their hats . |
| 17 | On one occasion they unearthed a blue taffeta ball dress with small bouquets of pink and cream brocade roses . |
| 18 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through the window and tore down the curtains . |
| 19 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through a window and tore down the curtains . |
| 20 | On one occasion they were comparing engagements in their respective diaries when two photographs of Camilla fell out from the pages of Charles 's diary . |
| 21 | On one occasion we picked out an exciting scrambling route to the top , taking each problem direct as it arose . |
| 22 | It 's designed to sleep two or three but on one occasion we had four adults sleeping inside . |
| 23 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |
| 24 | On one occasion we were lying alongside a pipe-laying barge in a remote anchorage with a six feet swell grinding Venturous against the chain secured tyre fenders when the superintendent of the large leaned over and shouted down to me . |
| 25 | There is also reference to reprimands and complaints addressed by him to his subordinates ; on one occasion we are told that the generals on an unsuccessful campaign justified their failure by explaining that although his piety was noted , he was not feared and this meant that his agents commanded no respect . |
| 26 | On one occasion it jammed and made a loud buzzing noise which I hoped I managed to conceal with a loud burst of coughing . |
| 27 | Obviously , if Jane says I 'm skipping and Mary says I 'm skipping we observe that on one occasion it is Jane who announces that she is skipping and on another it is Mary . |
| 28 | On one occasion it was a group called the Fine Young Cannibals who made the journey , to discuss Virgin 's offer for the rights to their song-publishing . |
| 29 | On one occasion I went to a hospital in south London to what the police reckoned would be a very rough demonstration . |
| 30 | We discussed my pacifism , and on one occasion I denied my convictions , just to be on his side . |