Example sentences of "[prep] once and for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mobilisation of the militias has been accompanied by letters in the press , supposedly from members , calling for tough action against ‘ subversive provocation ’ and vowing to ‘ stop these counter-revolutionary actions for once and for all - with weapons if need be ’ . |
| 2 | Next time he saw Alexandra he would establish for once and for all just exactly how committed she was , and just exactly to whom . |
| 3 | In his inaugural speech , delivered from the union 's headquarters in Washington DC , Carey promised " that I will use the full power of this office to rid this union of mob influence and win this battle for once and for all " . |
| 4 | She might have extracted Simon 's solemn oath that if she attended as he wished , the pretence that she was his girlfriend would be dropped for once and for all , but was that the whole reason ? |
| 5 | The park , unlikely though it might seem , was not a job , not a political ideology , not a way of filling in the weary hours until she was old enough to retire , not even something to spite her mother with once and for all while she accepted everything else from her . |
| 6 | It is an unfortunate excrescence on a democratic policy which is essentially sound and it follows from this that , with the right ideological tools and political elbow grease , racism can be dealt with once and for all , leaving the basic structures and relations of British economy and society essentially unchanged . |
| 7 | Before you leave here today , I 'll show you how overcrowding can be dealt with once and for all . |
| 8 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 9 | So , in an effort to once and for all give you the facts on why we 're Fun Factor Number 1 , we 've called in a few experts to run through the complete bizzo . |
| 10 | I quickly discovered that in her view it did n't have one , and that the only reason she had agreed to see me was to get this across once and for all . |