Example sentences of "[prep] once by [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Followed at once by a young man , dark-haired , sunburnt , wearing jeans and a T-shirt .
2 There was a more brilliant flash of lightning followed almost at once by a great crash of thunder .
3 To this question , the common answer is that he neither quoted the forged additions nor produced them at Rome , because he knew they were forgeries , and knew also that the forgery would be detected at once by a competent critic .
4 Eight rows of dots are printed at once by a single horizontal move of the print head across the paper .
5 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 .
6 The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman .
7 Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] .
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