Example sentences of "one after the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the gap in the hedgerow we opened fire on the running Germans , toppling them over one after the other . |
| 2 | One after the other , they 're all pressed into one great snake . |
| 3 | A single glance and , one after the other , they will scurry away , leaving me free to place hat , coat , newspaper , boots and Pac-a-Pet box over the remaining five seats and enjoy a journey of uninterrupted solitude . |
| 4 | They pour in one after the other . |
| 5 | Each took the oath and then gave almost identical evidence , one after the other condemning the prisoners in the dock . |
| 6 | Suddenly , she bent forward and kissed them one after the other . |
| 7 | And one after the other they kissed her on the cheek . |
| 8 | One blow without faith was hard enough , what about two , one after the other ? |
| 9 | Hold down Alt and tap , one after the other , the keys which will give the character and/or paragraph formats you want ( see Tasks 13 , 14 and 24 to 26 ) |
| 10 | Hold down Alt and tap , one after the other , the keys which will give the formats you want |
| 11 | But a British video company is releasing a home tape with both endings , one after the other . |
| 12 | Standing close above it , he presses the rim of a bell hard against its skull and , leaning forward , blows a blast of air into each ear , one after the other . |
| 13 | She squeezed them painfully , one after the other , over her hand . |
| 14 | One after the other , on the run , and without hesitation , they took the fatal one step into the night . |
| 15 | Then he sat in the grass , brought his wrists up under his knees , kicked off his shoes and worked his legs through his locked arms , one after the other . |
| 16 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 17 | All you have to do is gently move all your joints , several times , one after the other ; carefully stretch and then tense your muscles ; breathe deeply , but not too deeply , and invigorate your body by massaging it with your hands , someone else 's hands or a rough towel . |
| 18 | Running until their pursuers had become separated by the chase , they would turn and ambush them one after the other . |
| 19 | ‘ And in a building that stood ten or twelve paces from the place where they were beheaded , one after the other like sheep ’ , wrote a Spanish historian , ‘ was Pedrarias , watching them between the canes which formed the walls of his house … ‘ |
| 20 | But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie ! |
| 21 | ‘ People did n't like his going around town with one after the other . ’ |
| 22 | Every time pupils reach a question , they must stop and both players toss the coin , one after the other . |
| 23 | Information is conveyed in an entertaining fashion , with brush strokes projected one after the other onto easels dotted about the technological countryside , as a way of illustrating the impressionist technique . |
| 24 | Faced with a row of objects we do not , he said , lampooning Wittgenstein , perform appropriately by pointing to one after the other saying that 's a tree , that 's a tree , that 's a man , that 's a tree . |
| 25 | One after the other , the bubbles plop and the rough edges sizzle back just like they 're being eaten away by invisible acid . |
| 26 | But to enable him to concentrate on it , the government services that arose one after the other in the nineteenth century ( forestry , irrigation , the archaeological survey , public health and sani-tation , roads ) were organized outside the administrative structure , and had virtually no contact with the district officer . |
| 27 | Do you fancy those men taking your body , one after the other ? ’ |
| 28 | The hostile reception he received in the Caribbean in 1986 marked another low point , so that in the best tradition of film scripts , from a sea of adversity arose a hardened hero , utterly uncompromising , a succession of glittering prizes — personal and national — to be seized by him one after the other . |
| 29 | THESE DEVELOPMENTS ALL came one after the other . |
| 30 | Plenary sessions in the Conference had , one after the other , commented on the absence of any relevant courses at University Departments of Education , on the similar failure on the part of other institutions of higher education to develop qualifications which might secure recognition from the Council for National Academic Awards , and on the apparent unwillingness of the Department of Education and Science to recognise overseas qualifications whilst at the same time refusing to take a lead in a field which could be shown to be a priority area . |