Example sentences of "one after " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy Mitchell , seated at the rear of the Variety Tent , sighed in sympathy as , one after another , the right card failed to appear from or disappear into the deck . |
| 2 | The couple had little in common , and her children died in infancy , one after another , a loss she attributed to the lead works Wright ran on their premises . |
| 3 | From the gap in the hedgerow we opened fire on the running Germans , toppling them over one after the other . |
| 4 | One after another , down to the end of 1988 at least , attempts to reform or redefine the old consensus on ‘ one-nation ’ lines proved ineffective . |
| 5 | One after the other the main adversaries , local authorities , the miners , the universities , the bishops , dissidents of various shades , had retreated in disarray . |
| 6 | Garbett decided that no one after himself ought to be made to live in a château like Bishopthorpe . |
| 7 | Further , one after another these theories either overlooked or actively disallowed the erotics of other kinds of difference ; as Mandy Merck observes , in such theories ‘ no non-genital differences ( of race , class , age , etc ) can signify such total Otherness , no genitally similar object can be legitimately eroticised ’ ( Merck , ‘ Difference and its Discontents ’ , 5 — 6 ) . |
| 8 | Using a pole , fixed line , size 24 hook and wisp of fish or half a harbour rag it would be possible to catch fish an inch long one after another . |
| 9 | It is possible to read some of the writings of Marx and Engels as suggesting a mechanical succession of stages , following one after the other , or it is possible to seen in their work , concentrating on other passages , a less determinist view of progress . |
| 10 | Maybe the commentator 's lot is not such a happy one after all . |
| 11 | It 's got lots of words written up , one after the other — I suppose the names of where the trains are going . |
| 12 | One after the other , they 're all pressed into one great snake . |
| 13 | Take , for instance , the brouhaha which has followed Mrs Thatcher 's hint that she will probably retire sometime between the next general election and the one after that . |
| 14 | With one eye on the next deal and the other on the one after that , its grandees failed to spot the long-term slide in profitability , let alone reverse it . |
| 15 | A single glance and , one after the other , they will scurry away , leaving me free to place hat , coat , newspaper , boots and Pac-a-Pet box over the remaining five seats and enjoy a journey of uninterrupted solitude . |
| 16 | Perhaps they would come together in a future incarnation — not the next , probably , but perhaps the one after . |
| 17 | They pour in one after the other . |
| 18 | And then we came back to them , one after the other , and said , ‘ Now , where does this take us ? ’ |
| 19 | One after another they stepped up and gripped the stump of chalk which snapped in their fingers as soon as it was pressed to the board , sputtered and crumbled when they tried to move it , or let out a squeak to turn the teeth round in your gums . |
| 20 | Indeed , he used to queue up at Colnaghi in Bond Street for them , this one after Constable , that one after Boudin . |
| 21 | Indeed , he used to queue up at Colnaghi in Bond Street for them , this one after Constable , that one after Boudin . |
| 22 | It was a triumph to see the Grand National from so many angles — far better than being there — to have the camera on the winning boat , to watch the two FA Cup semi-finals , one after the other , and to round off the day with Nigel Mansell 's win in the Brazilian Grand Prix . |
| 23 | It was a small boost , but we certainly needed one after all we 've been through . ’ |
| 24 | This was placed on the kitchen floor , illiberally filled with water , and Wendy and I had to choose between going in together or one after the other while , we strongly suspected , Mr Sugden enjoyed a ‘ what-the-butler-saw ’ entertainment of looking through the keyhole . |
| 25 | Each took the oath and then gave almost identical evidence , one after the other condemning the prisoners in the dock . |
| 26 | One after another physician approaches my table conspiratorially , to complain of feeling unwell , or tell hair-raising tales of a companion 's sleepless night . |
| 27 | During a mad session I finally made one after two weeks of trying and came down and a guy called Matt said ‘ Yeah you did it at last ’ . |
| 28 | Make no price offer at this stage , but indicate that you might make one after consideration , and having done some sums . |
| 29 | Suddenly , she bent forward and kissed them one after the other . |
| 30 | And one after the other they kissed her on the cheek . |