Example sentences of "[vb past] them one " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had kissed her with passion or some brutal demand to impose his will on her then she could have found the strength to fight him , but there was no way she could resist this aching tenderness , this joining that made them one whole . |
| 2 | She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one . |
| 3 | Then Isabel read them one by one . |
| 4 | ‘ If I sold them one or two at a time I 'd be here for twenty years . ’ |
| 5 | So I drew them one by one — — Skippetty Rabbit , his wife Gillian , Brownie the Bear , Prowler the Wolf , Fido the Pup , Sly Fox , Piney Cone the Pine Marten , Longtail and Short Tail the Mice , and Bill Mouse with his wife Sue . |
| 6 | She took out little leather boxes and opened them one by one . |
| 7 | The cantor , the rabbi , the chosen laymen stood before the open Ark , cradling the Torah scrolls , which looked like stiff-necked royal children , and returned them one by one to their golden stall . |
| 8 | I examined them one by one — drinks , thermometer , stethoscope , blood-pressure machine , plaster cut-down setting , emergency transfusion setting in a sealed tin , emergency tracheotomy setting in another , emergency hypodermic setting on the final sterile-towel-covered tray . |
| 9 | There was a whole platoon of black-and-whites on our tail at the outset , but we lost them one by one . |
| 10 | Nick saw them one day when the door was left open , sitting with their elbows on the table and chewing their chops in their fingers . |
| 11 | Joseph saw them one minute to port , then the next minute to starboard , and once they even appeared dead astern as the river turned back on itself . |
| 12 | I sent them one , they 're ever so pleased . |
| 13 | But Mum just gave them one of her black looks and elbowed her way past the two women and went into Granny 's house . |
| 14 | Then , as the whole village looked on , Richard Carew drew his sword and decapitated them one by one . |