Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] once [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There seemed to be something inevitable in the way her glance homed in at once to the familiar figure standing with his back to her reading one of the notices . |
| 2 | Yet Hitler himself referred to the S.A.S. as ‘ so-called commandos who are recruited in part from common criminals released from prison … captured S.A.S. troops must be handed over at once to the nearest Gestapo unit … these men are very dangerous , and the presence of S.A.S. troops must be immediately reported … they must be ruthlessly exterminated . ’ |
| 3 | He dialled Essex and , the gods relenting , got through at once to the man he wanted . |
| 4 | The inner shell is a self-sufficient unit which can be cut off at once from the outer shell . |
| 5 | The sheep were penned in the yard , a usual practice at clipping time , when fleeces were clipped and thrown up at once to a helper on the gallery for storage . |
| 6 | When the story ran on 3 November , it was picked up at once by the Western media , touching off an international scandal of such embarrassing proportions that president Reagan was forced to act . |
| 7 | Unwilling to follow Merleau-Ponty by dropping the second in favour of the first , Sartre argued that it was possible for man to be both at once through the movement of praxis , that is intentional actions which produce material effects . |
| 8 | She could never ignore them as she passed them on the street , and they , as if they sensed it , turned to her , picking her out at once from a throng of a hundred other pedestrians as the one who saw and heard them . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're a terrible man — ’ she managed to croak as he touched her in a way that transported her back at once to the heaven of the previous night . |
| 10 | I 'm just trying to remember that j Oh erm down on Road , here , where the vicarage is , it used to be a pub , because the vicarage were over here at once upon a time . |
| 11 | ‘ He loved my dollars more , ’ Jared Tunstall had replied , hard for once on the daughter he had always indulged . |
| 12 | The Eliots returned from America in May , and rehearsals began almost at once for the Edinburgh Festival production of his new play . |
| 13 | Her head gave a warning thump , but subsided almost at once to the now bearable ache . |
| 14 | He went into his bedroom , returned almost at once with the oil-lamp that had been on the table when we had dinner . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , I fell almost at once into an exhausted sleep . |
| 16 | Tulagai slid almost at once into the vacant place . |
| 17 | The rest of her sentence died on her lips as Penry took her in his arms with a sound somewhere between a sigh and a groan as their lips met and their bodies flowed together in a deep , primeval need which united them almost at once in a storm of love and need as fierce as the one which raged , unheard , outside . |
| 18 | There was a more brilliant flash of lightning followed almost at once by a great crash of thunder . |
| 19 | Philip sailed but was forced to turn back almost at once by the weather . |
| 20 | He lifted her face , his lips moving over her skin hungrily , and the sensuous pleasure was there at once with no need at all for him to arouse her . |
| 21 | Our lookout man on the forecastle reported her as close to our port bow , where also the officer of the watch from the bridge clearly saw her as did our quarter-deck midshipman , who was sent forward at once to the forecastle to report back . |