Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] one [prep] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | They approached me one by one with invitations : some drinks over a game of cards ; a night out at the theatre … |
| 5 | She took out little leather boxes and opened them one by one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was a whole platoon of black-and-whites on our tail at the outset , but we lost them one by one . |
| 9 | But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been . |
| 10 | It 's like those bags I mean le I mean I 'd go if they bought me one of those bags . |
| 11 | I agree , its , its like those their lovely little things , do n't think of buying , it 's not very fair cos I mean , Mar , I mean I 'd be over the moon if someone bought me one of those bags . |
| 12 | Then , as the whole village looked on , Richard Carew drew his sword and decapitated them one by one . |
| 13 | Yeah so if it was somebody you did n't like you could say , here I saved you one of these , have a look at number element , very useful |
| 14 | In return , I gave him one of twelve tiny mouth-organs that Hohner had given me . |
| 15 | I drew him that , I gave him one of those [ pointing to the jumper he is wearing in the picture ] . |
| 16 | Harvey gave him one of those Sorbo-rubber helmets that paratroops wear on practice drops . |
| 17 | Do you remember Frank brought , bought us one of that pal of yours |
| 18 | ‘ But if they only looked at me coldly , and whispered behind their hands about me , and then left me one by one ? ’ |
| 19 | Then they attacked us one by one with electric sticks while our hands were handcuffed behind our backs . |