Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one . |
| 2 | Then Isabel read them one by one . |
| 3 | Taking no chances , he avoided them both in one long stride . |
| 4 | Moodie squeaked in support whilst Ruthven just dismissed them all with one scathing look . |
| 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 | They approached me one by one with invitations : some drinks over a game of cards ; a night out at the theatre … |
| 7 | In his tract justifying the activities of the Commons in the Parliament of 1701 , when the Tories had made a number of attacks on the policies of the Court Whigs , culminating in the attempted impeachment of some of the Junto Lords , the High Anglican Tory , James Drake , found it plausible in one place to quote Algernon Sidney in support of his argument about the rights of the lower House ; the tract as a whole , however , makes it clear that Drake can in no way be considered a convert to Sidney 's particular brand of radical Whiggery . |
| 8 | I think I even told you that at one point . |
| 9 | SUPERMAN Derek Kaye leapt into action when a trailer loaded with a car ran over his godson — and lifted it clear with ONE hand . |
| 10 | She took out little leather boxes and opened them one by one . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There was a whole platoon of black-and-whites on our tail at the outset , but we lost them one by one . |
| 14 | Well it made him drowsy for one thing , it kept knocking him out . |
| 15 | She turned to the door and flung it open with one contemptuous move . |
| 16 | Then , as the whole village looked on , Richard Carew drew his sword and decapitated them one by one . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , they never did it all in one move . |
| 18 | If she put it all in one account she could step up the return on her £20,000 to 6.45 per cent or £1,290 after tax . |
| 19 | ‘ But if they only looked at me coldly , and whispered behind their hands about me , and then left me one by one ? ’ |
| 20 | The leading peasant made us welcome in one of the peasant houses , where the same sort of ritual took place — long speeches , Chairman Mao , Chairman Hua , jin and mu , but with homely humour thrown in now and then . |
| 21 | Then they attacked us one by one with electric sticks while our hands were handcuffed behind our backs . |
| 22 | wanted them all in one place . |