Example sentences of "[verb] one after the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you need one after the next one , 'cos which sticks one , which |
| 2 | Afterwards McEnroe finally agreed to hold a press conference — thereby avoiding a $10,000 fine following his refusal to attend one after the first round . |
| 3 | She still retained her English habit of noting each day 's weather , always expecting changes , marvelling at the hot sunny days which followed one after the other , almost with monotony . |
| 4 | I see so we 've got the five officers who went into the flat now coming one after the other |
| 5 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 6 | It is possible to read some of the writings of Marx and Engels as suggesting a mechanical succession of stages , following one after the other , or it is possible to seen in their work , concentrating on other passages , a less determinist view of progress . |
| 7 | When two distinctly different vowel sounds occur one after the other and must be pronounced individually , a hyphen should be used where another language might employ an accent , eg co-operation/and not cooperation , thus avoiding the natural wish to pronounce the double o as /u/ or /u : / . |