Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] once " in BNC.
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| 1 | You go to your party , Mum , just forget about me for once ! |
| 2 | On the way home in the taxi ( Nigel was indulging them for once — he could n't let Gina use her bike under the circumstances ) he took delight in telling her she had a spot on her backside . |
| 3 | One doctor summed up the change : ‘ We 've actually seen them for once ; they 've been out here visiting just to make sure that we are aware of their potential services . ’ |
| 4 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
| 5 | 1991 , 27 1148 ) , I at once came to appreciate why it is that chemistry has so largely lost its appeal to the young : it is because its teaching has lost all discipline , degrading the science from a pursuit of excellence to ‘ fiddling the results ’ . |
| 6 | I at once sensed the physical austerity and the quality of social and intellectual superiority characteristic of the best public schools . |
| 7 | I at once applied for leave , which was granted , and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train . |
| 8 | I at once seized my astrolabe and made a careful note of the time of full eclipse , which was a little more than three-quarters of an hour after the eleventh hour of the night . |
| 9 | Now , to cover all eventualities , I at once began to work on both lungs . |
| 10 | I at once thought that the poor fellow had had a pretty rough day and had gone to sleep as he had n't made a sound . |
| 11 | ‘ Being informed by Lord Hastings of your situation and assured by him that my lord of Gloucester intends no harm to the king your son — but , on the contrary , desires only to protect him from those who would harm him — on learning of this an hour ago whilst in my bed at York House , I at once arose and came hither . ’ |
| 12 | In Sanity , Madness , and the Family , R.D. Laing and Aaron Esterson point up , with a clarity which I at once recognised and was astonished by , the importance of attributions within the family . |
| 13 | Macmillan concludes his diary entry for 13 May : " I at once telegraphed to Churchill saying that the position seemed to me radically changed ( I wonder for how long ? ) … |
| 14 | I at once informed Mr Blair of this and I am aware that he wrote you to say that my present attitude was distinctly negative . |
| 15 | On meeting him again , I at once noticed that he was looking unusually well and bronzed . |
| 16 | When I returned from Libya via Egypt , just after the Munich crisis I at once got in touch with Eliot , and put my proposal before him . |
| 17 | ‘ I at once spoke to His Majesty , ’ Wigram later wrote , ‘ who quite rightly said that there was no use shilly-shallying on an occasion like this , and he would proceed south that night . ’ |
| 18 | I at once , Stefan , there was an , I was anything , just . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd better tell someone at once , ’ said Tim . |
| 20 | On HP the aircraft is yours at once , and once a specified sum has been paid to the finance company , the finance company must go to court to reclaim the balance if you can no longer keep up the payments . |
| 21 | Even in such exalted company , Rozhdestvensky holds his own ( although Szell 's breathtaking final coda to the Marche remains a uniquely compelling experience ) , and what a joy to hear a native Russian orchestra accorded engineering which for once does them proud ! |
| 22 | He was lined up to do this independent film ‘ which for once had some decent money attached ’ . |
| 23 | All those at the college concerned in its production are to be heartily congratulated for giving the town a very impressive civic magazine of a very high standard which for once is good value for the public money spent on it . |
| 24 | All those at the college concerned in its production are to be heartily congratulated for giving the town a very impressive civic magazine of a very high standard which for once is good value for the public money spent on it . |
| 25 | I did n't think even that would be very interesting , but I liked the idea of old Peter having to bend himself for once . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And I loved the ending , ’ she added quickly , turning back to face them with her familiar , brilliant smile in place , ‘ with the hero playing himself for once in a crowd of clowns , as though he could only be real in an unreal world and vice versa … . |
| 27 | The guard never even knew that he opened the door and locked himself in once the Doctor had gone . |
| 28 | Dana did not ask to see my own poems , which at once made me suspect that he had some knowledge of them already . |
| 29 | My day has been spent in sleeping , reading a little , which at once made me think of you — and then , mostly , thinking of you , and feeling you so close … |
| 30 | Mason meanwhile attacked one Messerschmitt which at once went straight down , but the others attacked him and one got three hits on his aircraft , which shattered the windscreen and wounded him in the hand as he broke away . |