Example sentences of "[noun sg] once [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I been on a boat once with the school . |
| 2 | Subjects drove the car once around the route shown in Figure 3.1 . |
| 3 | And I said , ‘ I know why you picked the name Roger Short , because Shorty Rogers did an album once on a label he was n't supposed to , and changed his name from Shorty Rogers to Roger Short . ’ |
| 4 | He had er , fourteen and a half thousand pound once in a building society four year ago there 's nine hundred pound left in his bu er , building society account ! |
| 5 | I had a long talk once with the very bright lady who accompanied him in his early days , a lady of charm and accomplishment and infinitely more mature than Niki was . |
| 6 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 7 | Tom only missed the Postage Stamp green once during the tournament , and then he chipped up stone dead . |
| 8 | I would never go out like what Tony was saying you know he does n't drink at all and like he 'd be in a pub maybe seven days a week but I would take a drink now and again and I might n't go into a pub once in a month maybe . |
| 9 | ‘ So the beat constable should go down that lane once in every hour , ’ he remarked . |
| 10 | Within its tiny confines are to be found thousands of carefully sorted postcards , old and new ( some in categories such as ‘ Giotto ’ , ‘ Snakes ’ , ‘ Cities ’ , ‘ Bourgeois ’ ) and because of the enormous variety , a visitor is virtually guaranteed to spend some money once inside the door . |
| 11 | In the Impressionist and modern section of the sale an oil sketch once in the collection of Sargent by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida for his celebrated painting ‘ Sad Inheritance ’ , depicting crippled children bathing on the beach at Barcelona , made £90,000 ( $167,400 ; est. £25,000–40,000 ) . |
| 12 | All three on the other hand , and here Blanche was imagining what Parkin might say in his defence once in the interview room , had a good reason to want to see the blame for the murder transferred to Parkin should they have killed Nicola themselves . |
| 13 | Having set up the functioning New Business teams and created the essential facilities for servicing in the first few months , much further development was still needed to create procedures to service business once on the books . |
| 14 | Another facoured delivery system , or vector , is adenovirus : this is a bit bigger , and enters the cell via specific receptors that seem to provide some protection from breakdown of the nucleic acid once inside the human cell . |
| 15 | Tell her we all do the breast-stroke , refuse at water jumps , hit the bullseye once in a blue moon and get blisters when we run more than half a mile . |
| 16 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 17 | And Eleanor was damn lucky to have him as an escort once in a blue moon . |
| 18 | Actually , I did n't go to the hairdresser once during the five months I was in Private Lives and my hair became healthier from not being subjected to heated rollers or setting lotion . |
| 19 | Julia slowly nodded her head once against the pillow . |
| 20 | The Black Sea only recycles its water once in every 140 years and it is estimated Turkish beaches will remain contaminated by waste for more than a century . |
| 21 | The polling factor in cattle arises as a spontaneous mutation once in every 50,000 births anyway , so that there are always likely to be a few naturally polled cattle in any population . |
| 22 | Rather like the systems employed by general practitioners , there are advantages and disadvantages to both methods , with patients perhaps preferring the former system and being prepared to put up with a long delay once in the clinic to a worried wait of two or three days . |
| 23 | It 's nice to see a keyboard bashing and mouse jerking game once in a while but this game lacks events and the numerous score board screens really frustrate me . |
| 24 | I think you should change your shampoo and conditioner once in a while to avoid product build-up . |
| 25 | this trouble once with a with a young child and er I told this this this person er granny figure if you like , do n't talk to those children I 've told them not to they went on and on and on . |
| 26 | Erm , I got interviewed on radio once , on , on television once with a friend and they asked , they asked us what we did , and this friend of mine said we were radio mime artists . |
| 27 | Everybody makes a mistake once in a while . ’ |
| 28 | In the 1910s and 1920s , some newspaper proprietors seemed willing to continue to subsidize their newspapers on political grounds , but the mounting losses incurred in this process — Pearson spent £¾m keeping the Westminster Gazette going , the TUC had spent £½m on the Daily Herald between 1921 and 1928 but only saw profit once in the early years — increased the reluctance of the politically committed to get involved . |
| 29 | ( The Countess of Clancarty , rumoured to have been the Earl 's cook once upon a time , charged £2,000 for the service , and Lady St John of Bletso , whose provincial protégées were known as ‘ the Blets ’ , the same amount . ) |
| 30 | The sail would revolve around its man once for every two circuits of the island . |