Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] one by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another owner discovered that if he put a line of coins on his sideboard his cat would knock them down one by one . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll slice strips of y'black skin and peel them back one by one , like a damned banana . ’ |
| 3 | Ray was knocking them down one by one , unlike his tragic ancestor who only knocked himself down . |
| 4 | Chuck , read 'em out one by one . ’ |
| 5 | And to add to all the infamous circumstances which concur to plague a traveller , I must not forget the eternally meeting with chalk-waggons ; themselves frequently stuck fast , till a collection of them are in the same situation , and twenty or thirty horses may be tacked to each , to draw them out one by one . |
| 6 | The trouble was that a number of the birds were inside now and the constables , country boys , were conscientiously taking them out one by one before feeling around inside . |
| 7 | He could hide behind the door and club them down one by one when they came in . |
| 8 | Wishing hard to avoid the carved arches , I invited all manner of alternatives and shot them down one by one as unsuitable . |