Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] once " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are becoming cults : Wobble got mobbed once in Leamington Spa . |
| 2 | Perfectionist in all things , he declined to continue painting once a slight deterioration in eyesight precluded the extreme clarity he sought . |
| 3 | Well the thing is , I got caught once before in the other place when I went to Manor of the Groves where I tried to book out erm and found I was late for the first erm |
| 4 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 5 | DEC has collapsed once free-standing fiefdoms dedicated to Unix and NT , VMS , VAXs , microVAXs and workstations under him . |
| 6 | An alternative view , and one that is supported by circumstantial evidence from my own constituency , is that many wives voluntarily cease to work once their husbands become long-term unemployed . |
| 7 | It has only been met twice this year , the budget is quite small for the amount of work we can continue to do is quite small er it 's quite possible that it would only need to meet once a year in future so it would be sensible to combine it with other non-policy and traffic matters as a working party . |
| 8 | Each has won once , and there should n't be much between them this time . |
| 9 | The group has met once since the last EEB AGM and another meeting is scheduled for June 9th . |
| 10 | Recent restoration of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel has revealed once more Michelangelo 's awe-inspiring masterpiece . |
| 11 | Well she has done once . |
| 12 | It 's like the stupid things that I tried to do once myself with that great pope of Velasquez . |
| 13 | Senior service FATHER Ian has proved once again that England need him — that the old Beefy talent just can not be written off |
| 14 | He has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself … by the blood of the eternal covenant . |
| 15 | Tony Fenn says the City 's taking on board those recommendations , as a bug which has struck once , could strike twice . |
| 16 | However , the courts may gradually have fewer and fewer decisions to make on this issue because the pendulum , swinging between control and decontrol since 1915 , has swung once again in favour of the landlord . |
| 17 | Being robbed is losing the confident skin you have grown naturally ; it is to know it can happen to you and if it has happened once … |
| 18 | Something like that has happened once before . |
| 19 | Elke says she has tried once more in vain to buy a decent pullover for Fabian and tells how unfriendly the saleswoman in the shop was . |
| 20 | This year Pest Control has prospered once again and moved forward on all fronts . |
| 21 | The one thing we know for certain is that life has arisen once , here on this very planet . |
| 22 | Our name has changed once more . |
| 23 | It is designed to withstand the sort of storm that statistically would be expected to occur once in every 10,000 years . |
| 24 | The latest follower of this school of thought is Robert D. Riggs , who , in a Harvard dissertation of 1987 , tried to dispose once and for all of what he calls the ‘ dualism ’ ( a term he adopted from Mies ) , i.e. the belief in an intended difference between the two signs . |
| 25 | Tap Enter once for each additional line space required ( there are 6 per inch ) |
| 26 | Tap Enter once to insert a line |
| 27 | And in the 1940s male bitterns were heard booming once again at Leighton Moss . |
| 28 | But the right team will be the old firm , hoping that the old magic can be made to work once more . |
| 29 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 30 | His memory was remarkable but it was often frustrating when an interesting story was interrupted while he talked about the family background of a man he 'd met once in Iowa in the early 1960s . |