Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] once [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I cook at school and make dishes for my family once a week . ’ |
| 2 | By law a company like British Gas has to hold a meeting of its shareholders once a year . |
| 3 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 4 | To involve people in Billy Graham Crusades we asked for a specific and limited commitment , something that people understood and could accept : a prayer meeting in their home once a week , for five weeks only ; giving a monthly gift to the Crusade , for six months only . |
| 5 | Prisoners have a full-day visit from their families once a week . |
| 6 | It was curiously ordered after the kitchen , with canvasses in neat stacks along the walls , and in the centre a table , clearly from its size once a billiard table , covered in piles of drawings , pots of brushes , bottles and jars and a huge battered shallow leather case , full of tubes of paint like silver fish . |
| 7 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 8 | The hard core of Copernican astronomy would be the assumptions that the earth and the planets orbit a stationary sun and that the earth spins on its axis once a day . |
| 9 | He added that in return I had to help him : I would have to come to his office once a week and report on what was happening in Fontanellato . |
| 10 | Try applying a little self-tanning milk mixed with moisturiser to your face once a week until you achieve a natural colour . |
| 11 | Whereas the three unbreakable makes of 1930 were distributed by record shops in the usual way , you ordered your Durium records from your newsagent , so a pair of new hits were delivered through your letterbox once a week , like magazines ( you could also buy them over the counter , of course ) . |