Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] once [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a very frail person , coming in to assist with eating tea once a week might be a family contribution . |
| 2 | According to figures compiled by the National Institute of Drug Abuse in December 1990 , the number of US citizens who used cocaine once a week or more fell by 23 per cent from 862,000 in 1988 to 662,000 in 1990 . |
| 3 | They are into philosophical time , producing work once a year or less . |
| 4 | One eats meat once a week , and only two ever ate fresh fruit . |
| 5 | She has no winter coat or boots and she eats meat once a week , " and by the end of the month it 'll be beans on toast or a can of soup between us . |
| 6 | Penny was a feminist friend of Robyn 's from the Sociology Department , with whom she played squash once a week . |
| 7 | At first he had felt a little out of place , but had finally arranged to play football once a week with other members of the centre . |
| 8 | The first race was held here in 1519 , and today it takes place once a year , on the third Tuesday of each March . |
| 9 | But on the whole it is easy to value paintings by Japanese artists as they paint similar subjects , and new prices are set by the dealers ' auction which takes place once a month at the Tokyo Bijutsu Club , of which most big dealers are members . |
| 10 | If these contracts require consent to assign or novate the purchaser may insist that completion only takes place once a specified number of consents have been given or , in particular , consents in relation to the most important contracts comprising a specified percentage of annual turnover . |
| 11 | The festival takes place once a year , usually in March . |
| 12 | These were er in , in its infancy then and er we had a soup kitchen and er we , we got soup once a day , when we got issued with it . |
| 13 | Men having intercourse once a day with an infected woman would become HIV-positive after an average of 33 months . |
| 14 | When you talked to judges in the Sixties , they might have told you they did n't happen at all or would be willing to concede that a miscarriage might take place once every 10 years . ’ |
| 15 | But women having sex once a day with an HIV-infected man would on average become infected within a year , the study found . |
| 16 | One recent survey revealed that 13pc of couples only make love once a week though the researchers believe the number who do n't have sex at all may be even greater . |
| 17 | But they are keen on the average private investor because he does not expect to have lunch once a quarter and is less likely to sell out during a takeover bid . |
| 18 | As as I see it er it 's and I I may be corrected on this , Professor Lock 's hypothesis is that we over-provide land and then limit release once an |
| 19 | And he was to be the first of a growing number of police officers to take part once a week — as we tried to persuade our viewers to do more to help the police in preventing and solving crimes , as well as catching the villains . |
| 20 | However , serve liver once a week as it 's a good source of iron . |
| 21 | Staff meetings take place once a week for one to two hours and rotate between Tuesdays and Thursdays to ensure maximum attendance by part-time staff . |
| 22 | We got coffee once a week . |
| 23 | As I understand it , the ruling states that if a chick makes tea once a week for the same guy — she gets half his dough . |