Example sentences of "[be] [prep] once [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose and Mary were for once showing a united front and refused to leave the kitchen because they did n't quite like the way the young women from the town who had come to be waitresses were poking and prying into their cupboards with their noses in the air . |
| 2 | The strategies adopted for the closures of Powick , Banstead and Exminster were at once puzzling in their diversity . |
| 3 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |
| 4 | D'Arquebus himself was at once sneering and praying for clarity . |
| 5 | A particular brand of Protestant religion correlated with a science that was at once emerging from , and emancipating itself from , the organic and spirit-filled world of the magician . |