Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] one by one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time he found one he held all the flapping notices down one by one , and read through lists of hockey teams , and announcements of meetings to be held by religious societies . |
| 2 | If voices were to end at the same time as their canonic function ended they would fall out one by one , as in a round . |
| 3 | Philip guided her by the arm into the front entrance and the hall , where a frightening array of girls in uniforms with white aprons and the cook , whom Eileen had known since she was a child , came up one by one and greeted them . |
| 4 | The stories came out one by one until eventually the diversion of funds to the Contras became known . |
| 5 | The raffle or lottery is a form of random sample — in its simplest form the identical little numbered tickets are shaken up in a hat and drawn out one by one by someone with their eyes closed . |
| 6 | Pulling out one by one oh no ooh ! |
| 7 | The words seemed to have been dragged up one by one from the depths of himself , like prisoners loaded with chains , and released to the world only with great reluctance . |
| 8 | Already showing signs of life , patients were brought in one by one from the pile next door and wedged on to the chair in Room I , which looked like what it was , a laboratory in the Hygienic Institute , a world of bubbles and bottles . |
| 9 | Inside her head , the lights went out one by one , systems shut down . |
| 10 | Their under-officers fell out one by one and took station along the way to preserve the channel they had opened . |
| 11 | We may consider rather the analogy of carpets being brought periodically into a shop for display and rolled out one by one on a pile . |
| 12 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 13 | My idea of heaven is a meal starting with champagne and smoked salmon and then followed by a whole series of pudding trolleys rolling up one by one ! ’ |
| 14 | As night falls the houses light up one by one , and smugglers move stealthily about in the moonlight . |
| 15 | We were taken out one by one and always a soldier stood behind , the barrel of his gun shoved between the prisoner 's shoulder blades . |
| 16 | In Oxfordshire the Stonesfield slate-pits and mines shut down one by one during the second half of the nineteenth century ; in Leicestershire the Swithland slate-quarries , which had been worked since Henry III 's time , shut down altogether in 1887 ; and so it was in nearly every county in England . |
| 17 | Upon closure of Woodhead , the class 76's were simply shut down one by one and congregated at Guide Bridge for many months afterwards , eventually departing for scrapyards in Sheffield or Leicester . |
| 18 | ‘ If you come up one by one , without weapons , I 'll take you home to a fair trial in England . |
| 19 | The sounds of night , picked out one by one , are imitated in the carefully constructed lines ; yet the pauses between the sounds are also conveyed in the slowness and tranquillity of the whole passage , so that the general effect is one of intense stillness , with the ear strained to catch the least noise . |