Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] once [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . ’ To the non-musician , the name Mozart means the archetypal prodigy , the boy who started composing at four years old , and as a child touring the courts of Europe astounded monarchs with his amazing aptitude for keyboard playing ; who at 14 copied out from memory a complex choral piece heard once in the Sistine Chapel ; who died in mysterious circumstances and was given a pauper 's funeral in an unmarked grave . |
| 2 | ‘ Two n't hurt the lad to help once in a while . |
| 3 | This kind of thing happens once in a lifetime . |
| 4 | ‘ Greasers are almost like hoods ; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up petrol stations and have a gang fight once in a while . ’ |
| 5 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 6 | ‘ A handed-down tale of how a vast yawning chasm opened once in the sky over the Forest of Darkness ; of how the people in that part of Ireland saw a glimpse of the true world of the Dark Ireland : the fiery furnaces where the manacles and the chains of evil are forged ; the towering Black Looms of the necromancers ; dark evil citadels and huge screeching night-crows and ravens ; the silhouettes of wraiths and banshees and hags . |
| 7 | There has always been a lingering suspicion that BSL is a very difficult language to learn once beyond a few preliminary signs . |
| 8 | For those who like a time check once in a while , it was now 9.30 hours to go and still counting down . |