Example sentences of "[prep] once [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 2 | They were at once joined by the Bretons rising in rebellion against the King who had done much to limit their independence . |
| 3 | He was at once ambushed by the Stannards . |
| 4 | A shockingly inflamed eyeball at once rectified by a single injection . |
| 5 | When I had first read The Idea of a Christian Society , I was at once struck by the compatibility of some of Hardy 's remarks on the role and function of the Anglican Church with Eliot 's own views . |
| 6 | After breakfast I ventured forth , and was at once overwhelmed by the beauty and the scale of the buildings . |
| 7 | Rebels , the TUC and the stolidity of the public forced ASLEF to call off its strike , but balance was at once restored by the NHS unions starting a three-day-one . |
| 8 | The choice was at once criticised by the Christian Association of Nigeria . |