Example sentences of "one by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt its coldness spreading through my body , killing off the cells , one by one . |
| 2 | One by one the members of the crowd trickled out into the fête , carrying with them the news of Phipps 's death . |
| 3 | The female head louse lays shiny yellow eggs and glues them one by one to individual hairs , close to the scalp . |
| 4 | Without another word the three of them dressed and then , by the small yellow light of the candles , they opened the strong-box and fed the many leaves of paper one by one into the embers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | She picked off the dead leaves one by one . |
| 8 | She looked at them one by one ; she nodded to the people she had seen sewing by the fountain ; she smiled at the old woman and the boy . |
| 9 | Wishing hard to avoid the carved arches , I invited all manner of alternatives and shot them down one by one as unsuitable . |
| 10 | As the thirty-six girls enter one by one down the ramp at the back of the stage and move into six straight lines across the stage until it is completely filled , there is one continually progressing line of arabesques and ports de bras . |
| 11 | Moving-iron and reed types were produced in dozens of variants , in addition to the odd-ball kinds like the compressed-air type , but the breakthrough came with the moving coil , which had been modernised from its Siemens 1874 patent and Lodge 's 1898 one by Rice and Kellogg in 1924 . |
| 12 | Its product was two tries by Gavin Hastings , who totalled 22 points , and one by Rob Andrew . |
| 13 | BALAKIREV 'S Oriental fantasy Islamey exists in several versions — the composer 's original , for piano solo , and at least two orchestral transcriptions , one by Lyapunov ( a pupil of both Balakirev and Tchaikovsky ) , the other by the Italian Alfredo Casella . |
| 14 | One by one , Tony Benn , Eric Heffer , Audrey Wise and the formidable Joan Maynard — dubbed ‘ Stalin 's granny ’ by the ungallant right — blazed away at the mood of meek obeisance abroad in Brighton . |
| 15 | SATURDAY Nick Hancock Hugely enjoyable blast-off comedian who , like some smirking , behind-the-sheds schoolboy takes a list of his pet hates out of his pocket , lays them out and talks you through them one by one . |
| 16 | The best solution , I have found , is to throw them down , one by one , on to the horses ' deep bed of wood-chips , off which they almost always bounce unscathed . |
| 17 | There are lots of wonderful musical settings of her grief and rage at this point , notably one by Monteverdi . |
| 18 | He interviewed , one by one , some of the other names put forward by Fisher , to see what they were like in comparison with Ramsey whom he knew already . |
| 19 | Now all these things were returning , one by one . |
| 20 | The one would be abolished by the Clean Air Act and the others would die and disappear one by one , passing through the gates of the fatal factories close by . |
| 21 | One by one everyone else 's balloon burst but I lacked the courage to blow too hard . |
| 22 | Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Everyone embraced blindly and kissed one by one . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Instead , we 'd uncovered , one by one , the inherent flaws that tarnish Dodge 's brave attempt at building a Euro-style sporting saloon . |
| 27 | One by one the Corporals who commanded each rig section reported their charges ready for the water . |
| 28 | My childhood memories were a great source of strength to me after the members of my family died , one by one , and I was left to work the farm alone . |
| 29 | The cars passed out , one by one , and sped after it . |
| 30 | Then they attacked us one by one with electric sticks while our hands were handcuffed behind our backs . |