Example sentences of "[adv prt] [indef pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of the medical materialism of Hammer horror , we get a surprisingly restrained treatment of the play 's fuliginous cruelties : even when the Duchess is invaded by a chorus of madmen , they are ushered in one at a time by a beady-eyed supervisor wielding a corrective cane . |
| 2 | Malpass put the fingers of his right hand on the chair arm and pressed them down one at a time until all four knuckles cracked loudly . |
| 3 | Then we waited , as the ships ahead of us lifted off one at a time to make their laborious way through the Valve 's exit security process . |
| 4 | ‘ What 's all this ? ’ he said , picking them up one at a time . |
| 5 | Last Sunday you may remember I held up something at the start of the service , and it was my mail from the previous day and we homed in on one buff letter which had H M inspector of taxes in it . |
| 6 | She checked the labels , shook her head , tossed the bottles back one at a time . |
| 7 | So do you want to take e each object out one at a time and then put it on the table in the categories so you 've got one pile of bones . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell the housekeeper she must count the needles , and only give out one at a time to the girls — they lose them so easily ! |
| 9 | Nor can one tell the normal value of a mine , although some must have given considerable yields — Wolsey , as bishop of Durham , let out one at a rent of £180 a year ( 82 , pp.164–5 ) . |
| 10 | They , along with compositors , paper makers , wool sorters and colliers , had developed the rolling strike , or strike in detail , whereby shops were turned out one at a time with those in work supporting those who were withdrawn . |
| 11 | I just sat there , got them all out one at a time and did the whole damn lot ! |