Example sentences of "[verb] them one by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He followed Carla into the kitchen and produced the coins for her to see , then started to flip them one by one . |
| 2 | She switched on an overhead lamp and unrolled them one by one . |
| 3 | Then Isabel read them one by one . |
| 4 | Let us consider them one by one . |
| 5 | I plough on , steering my way through the problems , gradually overtaking them one by one , hoping that somewhere , just beyond the horizon , the congestion will clear . |
| 6 | After thoroughly investigating their backgrounds and their political beliefs , he had approached them one by one . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His method is straightforward enough : examining what he takes to be the central claims and assumptions of Conservative political philosophy , he proceeds to dismantle them one by one and , having demonstrated to his satisfaction that no Conservative tenet can withstand analytical criticism , declares that ‘ Conservatism … has , in the end , nothing to say for itself ’ . |
| 9 | The female head louse lays shiny yellow eggs and glues them one by one to individual hairs , close to the scalp . |
| 10 | She took out little leather boxes and opened them one by one . |
| 11 | Without a word the South African began to scoop up the other twenty-four piles and tip them one by one into a stout canvas bag with drawstring at the top . |
| 12 | He could sluice himself , shuddering , take off his clothes and scrub them on a stone kerb , then hang them one by one out of the window . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And as soon as they finished their feed and they had some drinks from the small tins as well , we used to put them one by one back in these boxes where the eggs were and they used to settle down straight off then after they had their feed and and they used to erm settle down no trouble at all . |
| 15 | Like that lovely story about Brother Andrew among tramps and vagrants , leading the singing and picking fleas off his cassock as they sang quite innocently : ‘ Count your blessings , name them one by one ! ’ |
| 16 | A massive , antiquated fan whirred and clattered in the corner of the office , turning on its metal stem , examining them one by one . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was a whole platoon of black-and-whites on our tail at the outset , but we lost them one by one . |
| 19 | From the loaf I have taken with me I tear off several pieces of crust and toss them one by one into the current , which carries them over the spot where the chub surfaced . |
| 20 | Then , as the whole village looked on , Richard Carew drew his sword and decapitated them one by one . |
| 21 | With a choice we work perceptually on the alternatives to see if we can make one so attractive that it attracts us to ignore the others ; or we try to make the alternatives so unattractive that we can dismiss them one by one . |