Example sentences of "by one [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One by one the students returned , filling the corridors and the public rooms with cheerful noise . |
| 2 | Strombolian activity continued for most of this time in the little cone built up over the fissure , until it was a respectable thirty metres or so in height , while the lavas snaked down-slope in several glowing tongues , permanently ruining many of the best skiing slopes , engulfing one by one the pylons that carried the cable-way , and demolishing the upper cable-station . |
| 3 | One by one the Brownies stepped forward . |
| 4 | ( One by one the PLAYERS emerge , impossibly , from the barrel , and form a casually menacing circle round ROS and GUIL who are still appalled and mesmerised . ) |
| 5 | One by one the members of the crowd trickled out into the fête , carrying with them the news of Phipps 's death . |
| 6 | We worked together as a Club on this project , but one by one the members dropped by the wayside , until the good lady decided it was n't worth wasting the petrol coming to collect such a few items . |
| 7 | One by one the teachers squared their shoulders and assumed the burden of the festivities . |
| 8 | One by one the teachers made their ways to their homes — modest , mostly celibate , mostly cheerless homes . |
| 9 | One by one the visitors returned to join him . |
| 10 | One by one the riders fell , not without causing loss themselves : three of the villagers lay in their own gore , and one had been blinded by slingshot in the confusion of the raid . |
| 11 | As in religious autobiographies of ‘ confessions ’ ( St Augustine is relevant here ) the poet is steadily driven to despair as one by one the hopes and promises of his early ‘ vocation ’ are withdrawn ; the restoration of his imaginative powers is the subject of the final books of the poem , and the new placing of the ‘ spots of time ’ passage now offers an explanation of this recovery , besides connecting the end of the poem with the ‘ childhood ’ scenes of the now almost forgotten first two books . |
| 12 | One by one the words and phrases with which Mark had bored her , were regurgitated by the credulous old priest … ‘ exchange of values … living by proxy … the superlife … ultimately through television … substitute for living … |
| 13 | As he had thought ‘ Coventry ’ had only been starters , one by one the names of our principal cities were mentioned . |
| 14 | One by one the gonophs , thieves , finewirers , whores , illusionists , backsliders and second-storey men awoke and breakfasted . |
| 15 | He placed a small amount of the substance in his hand and one by one the worshippers knelt down and licked it like hungry animals . |
| 16 | One by one the traders shuttered their shops . |
| 17 | One by one the men emerged from the huts or appeared among the trees on the top of the bank . |
| 18 | One by one the men in our mixed household left or were thrown out . |
| 19 | One by one the Corporals who commanded each rig section reported their charges ready for the water . |
| 20 | Then I would sit beside her putting into her mouth one by one the marshmallows I had brought . |
| 21 | Miss Poraway cried , and one by one the twins took volumes from a carton that Mrs Stead-Carter had carried from her car . |
| 22 | One by one the dogs on the left of the trace anoint it , the ones on the right going frantic in their efforts to reach it . |