Example sentences of "as one [prep] [adj] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ For I say to you , unless you become as one of these you shall never enter the kingdom of Heaven .
2 Then they faced an admen 's nightmare as one by one their heroes failed .
3 Instead of the screams of starving men , there were prayers , and the prayers passed into silence as one by one they died of starvation a few yards away from food .
4 Lights came on in the Mootwalk shops as one by one they began to open .
5 The women clucked and tutted as one by one they turned to stare at the tall fourteen year old .
6 Cook , Cook , Cook ! we croaked in deprecatory tones as one by one we crept past him cowed and cold , fearing that he might invent some pretext to detain us … we hurried to bring to his notice the only name which seems to have power in Syria , that famous name of the hydra-headed , the indispensable , the world-wide Cook .
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