Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] once [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered a night by the river when daylight faded , darkness fell and the moon rose at once with a new light and I had thought I understood everything and that everything was good . |
| 2 | Maria moved at once to her mother . |
| 3 | For he moved at once to a post-natal , ecological sorting wherein individual adaptive variants are retained , while the maladaptive are eliminated in the Malthusian crush of population . |
| 4 | He found it in the fact that the State , ‘ united for once in spirit ’ and ‘ with the fervent consent of the people of every land subject to the rule of our King ’ had entered on an arduous conflict , not for territory or glory but ‘ for the sake of enforcing the plainest rules of international justice and the plainest dictates of common humanity ’ . |
| 5 | Sadleir was chosen , received formal instructions on 14 April 1819 , and sailed at once from Bombay . |
| 6 | And bringing up the end of the procession was a tribe of people whom she recognised at once as those who , like herself and Claud , had always had a little of everything and the God-given wit to use it right . |
| 7 | The other , whom I recognised at once from the camp at Southampton and from the training centre at Achnacarry was sitting u– on the stretcher cursing his bad luck in getting a piece of shrapnel in his leg . |
| 8 | They drove at once to Baird 's home which was in the Dundonald suburb of Belfast . |
| 9 | The thought of Joe came at once into her mind , but where could Joe be ? |
| 10 | It came at once in the form of none other than the mighty Lord 's Prayer ; but it was n't until I got to the line about daily bread that I saw the light — I had n't given her any ! |
| 11 | Recognizing her proper place , outside success or failure or even heartbreak , Aunt Tossie turned at once to her brother-in-law : " And did you have fun , naughty old thing ? " |
| 12 | The sentiment backfired at once with a sharp reminder of the hopelessness of her own dreams . |
| 13 | Mary 's confirmation of her intended marriage reached Coleridge just before Christmas , and he replied at once in a letter which was his brave and gentle farewell . |
| 14 | Angela Foley , the twenty-seven-year-old personal secretary to the Director of Hoggatt 's Laboratory , picked up the envelope and guessed at once by the quality of the paper , the expertly typed address and the London postmark what it must be . |
| 15 | He withdrew at once to a gracious distance , not to disturb in any way the privacy and composure of the next contender , and his two young squires , well trained to be equally unobtrusive in attendance , drew in silently at either shoulder . |
| 16 | He looked so extraordinarily like Tom Cornelius that Nora glanced at once at Sarah to see how she responded . |
| 17 | ‘ City of Truro ’ was in light steam for the last time on the WSR as a static exhibit but upstaged for once by a host of traction and ploughing engines , vintage vehicles and other displays ! |
| 18 | Fearing a tragedy of epic proportions — her mind leapt at once to Penini and then to Miss Arabel — she knocked on the open door and Mr Browning came through from the other room , so haggard and drawn in contrast to his morning self that once more she was convinced something dreadful had happened . |
| 19 | Her suspicions flew at once to Ethel having cast a spell on the cat to get even with Mildred for the insult to Ethel 's family . |
| 20 | He touched the baby 's cheek with his forefinger , and Isobel could see even from her chair between the cameras that the baby 's lip curled at once toward it . |
| 21 | An audible groan rippled through the new Form Two , quelled at once by one of Miss Hardbroom 's piercing glances which always made each pupil feel that they had been noticed personally . |
| 22 | My mother softened at once at the words ‘ Do you remember … ? ’ when they referred to her youth and not to her knowledge . |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing , ’ he called at once to the others , whose view of the top car was obscured by the tall backs of their seats . |
| 24 | It is thought to have been a spout , or larger body of water , which , by the lightening incessantly rarifying the air , broke at once on the tops of the mountains , and descended upon the valley below , which is about three miles long , half a mile broad , and lies nearly east and west , being closed on the south and north sides with prodigious high , steep , and rocky mountains … ’ |
| 25 | Belinda thrilled at once to the beauty of it all , and knew that she would enjoy the opportunity of finding out more about where all these lovely things came from … if she took the job , she reminded herself hastily , just as Dr Russell had recently done , even while she suspected that the matter was a foregone conclusion . |
| 26 | Hair combings from her brush went at once into hiding — a small stoup , designed for Holy Water , concealed their rather sordid twirls — in accordance with the unspoken law that anything ugly should be put out of sight , which applied to more things than hair combings . |
| 27 | When she closed the door after letting Ellwood in , her eyes went at once to the document case . |
| 28 | But a friend is a friend , and so I went at once to his house . |
| 29 | As a boy at Halton I had devoured every book available on the exploits of the RFC in World War I and my mind went at once to the great deeds of Ball , Bishop , McCudden , Mannock — why not Mahaddie , I thought ? |
| 30 | They went at once from walk to gallop . |