Example sentences of "one at [art] time [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 You will have achieved very little if parents sort problems one at a time and keep coming back to you for the same advice for each one .
2 Bring them in one at a time and show them a series of articles such as a pot , a plate , a flask and a small stool .
3 London Transport held very strong views in favour of standardization , so when in 1936 , the ex-Croydon cars were due for an annual overhaul and relicensing , they were withdrawn one at a time and replaced by E/1 Class cars between October 1936 and January 1937 .
4 If anaphors were to be resolved one at a time and left to right , nothing would yet have been done about ‘ him ’ , so the configurational contribution would be missed and reasoning would be inevitable .
5 I just sat there , got them all out one at a time and did the whole damn lot !
6 The Head of Department then went through the objectives one at a time and satisfied the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and the Director of Studies that , with different emphases , the objectives were all subsumed in the 3 criteria for the assessment of pupils ' work .
7 The best way to learn these modes is to take them one at a time and examine the construction of each one .
8 Cold setting was carried out by selecting the characters one at a time and placing them in a compositor 's stick .
9 Although oxygen is a good oxidising agent ( atom or molecule that accepts electrons from the molecule it oxidises ) , restrictions on the direction of spin of the electrons it accepts means that it usually accepts these one at a time as shown in the following equations :
10 ‘ Often they 'll kill a couple of lambs , take one at the time and leave one to be picked up later , ’ he explained .
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