Example sentences of "[prep] one [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 His attitude was that of one the soldiers whose income by the sword he said he would better with his pen .
2 Its central purpose , as the head of one the agencies put it , is ‘ to produce a river which is suitable for the uses which are needed downstream — providing a potable water supply , for fisheries , just amenity .
3 At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment , gathering several sticks as well .
4 In one the vestibules of the rebuilt church of St John , Egham , is a reset monument of 1638 by Maximilian Colt to Sir John Denham .
5 Whereas it does figure as one the factors within his table .
6 One by one the students returned , filling the corridors and the public rooms with cheerful noise .
7 Strombolian activity continued for most of this time in the little cone built up over the fissure , until it was a respectable thirty metres or so in height , while the lavas snaked down-slope in several glowing tongues , permanently ruining many of the best skiing slopes , engulfing one by one the pylons that carried the cable-way , and demolishing the upper cable-station .
8 One by one the Brownies stepped forward .
9 ( One by one the PLAYERS emerge , impossibly , from the barrel , and form a casually menacing circle round ROS and GUIL who are still appalled and mesmerised . )
10 One by one the members of the crowd trickled out into the fête , carrying with them the news of Phipps 's death .
11 We worked together as a Club on this project , but one by one the members dropped by the wayside , until the good lady decided it was n't worth wasting the petrol coming to collect such a few items .
12 One by one the teachers squared their shoulders and assumed the burden of the festivities .
13 One by one the teachers made their ways to their homes — modest , mostly celibate , mostly cheerless homes .
14 One by one the visitors returned to join him .
15 One by one the riders fell , not without causing loss themselves : three of the villagers lay in their own gore , and one had been blinded by slingshot in the confusion of the raid .
16 As in religious autobiographies of ‘ confessions ’ ( St Augustine is relevant here ) the poet is steadily driven to despair as one by one the hopes and promises of his early ‘ vocation ’ are withdrawn ; the restoration of his imaginative powers is the subject of the final books of the poem , and the new placing of the ‘ spots of time ’ passage now offers an explanation of this recovery , besides connecting the end of the poem with the ‘ childhood ’ scenes of the now almost forgotten first two books .
17 One by one the words and phrases with which Mark had bored her , were regurgitated by the credulous old priest … ‘ exchange of values … living by proxy … the superlife … ultimately through television … substitute for living …
18 As he had thought ‘ Coventry ’ had only been starters , one by one the names of our principal cities were mentioned .
19 One by one the gonophs , thieves , finewirers , whores , illusionists , backsliders and second-storey men awoke and breakfasted .
20 He placed a small amount of the substance in his hand and one by one the worshippers knelt down and licked it like hungry animals .
21 One by one the traders shuttered their shops .
22 One by one the men emerged from the huts or appeared among the trees on the top of the bank .
23 One by one the men in our mixed household left or were thrown out .
24 One by one the Corporals who commanded each rig section reported their charges ready for the water .
25 Then I would sit beside her putting into her mouth one by one the marshmallows I had brought .
26 Miss Poraway cried , and one by one the twins took volumes from a carton that Mrs Stead-Carter had carried from her car .
27 One by one the dogs on the left of the trace anoint it , the ones on the right going frantic in their efforts to reach it .
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