Example sentences of "[verb] once [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It was not necessary , he could have rung once he had arrived , but in this way he committed himself .
2 Perhaps we could discuss once you have had an opportunity to consider them .
3 But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social .
4 Slater provided Britten with pen-portraits out of Crabbe which can never be forgotten once they are encountered .
5 So an annuity ca n't fall once you 've bought it it 's guaranteed , so you can see there are advantages to it .
6 Both lone parents and married mothers are more likely to work once their children have reached school age — 55 per cent and 68 per cent respectively ; compared to 20 per cent of lone mothers and 34 per cent of married mothers with pre-school age children .
7 be careful in the dusk , remember mirror , signal , manoeuvre once you start to overtake move quickly passed the vehicle you are overtaking , when overtake er , overtake only on the right except when the driver in the front has signalled that he intends to turn right , you can overtake him on the left , without getting in the way , when you want to turn left at a junction , when traffic is moving slowly in queues and be er , in a lane on the right and moving more slowly than you are , in one way streets , but not dual carriageways , maybe with a path on either side , when traffic is moving as described , do not increase your speed while being overtaken , slow down if necessary to let the overtaking vehicle pass .
8 But the books a writer fails to write in his adolescence are of a different nature from the books he fails to write once he has announced his profession .
9 Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required .
10 find out what they actually need which is the second part and to do that once you do that it 's quite easy , as I say once you 've actually made contact with them and you are on a friendly basis , you then , you can hold very very useful conversation and let them come over quite naturally .
11 But , unlike natural membranes ( nerve cell membranes , for example ) the ionic resistance of an artificial membrane can not be varied once it is in place ; and so the flux of ions across the membrane can not be fully controlled .
12 Hounds such as the Bassett can be particularly stubborn , especially about returning once they are off the leash .
13 Michael adds once we 've got the bit between the teeth we go on til we get it right .
14 Family cases should be only referred to a solicitor where detailed advice and negotiation about the arrangements to be made for financial provision and for the children were needed ; other civil cases should only be referred once it was clear that court proceedings should be initiated .
15 Will you disappear once your job has been done ?
16 Solo launches are easy to perform once you have a little experience .
17 One of the reasons why Napoleon wished to retain close supervision of France 's foreign policy was his understanding of the difficulties which would arise once he began to probe the weaknesses of the European system established in 1815 and designed as a check to French ambition .
18 Credit facilities should only be reinstated once you are reasonably sure there will be no more problems with getting paid .
19 need n't be , I mean once they 've got all of this the form tutor one need n't be anything .
20 So I should n't imagine that erm I mean once we 've got through this one I 'm blowed if I 'm going to do it
21 I mean once we 're on the other side it does n't really matter
22 I mean once I know what a thing is
23 I mean once I 've cleared up , you know , when she 's gone and and do n't mind seeing
24 I think I mean it was interesting cos someone said earlier about people coming in I mean once you get them in I mean I always feel it 's like the pantomime each year which is an amateur pantomime yet the actual people coming in to see that I mean it 's well in the ninety per cent 's and you talk to people when they come to see the pantomime and ver invariably the the mum 's or dad 's say no I do n't normally come to theatre but I come to the pantomime and they enjoy it very much and when you talk to them they can say well what you think of it ?
25 I mean once you can eat and drink .
26 I mean once you get er in the , say you get on in grain and you got leather shoes on , well you 'd roll but th when you got , when you got rope , these rope soles , cos they used to grip on the grain , they would n't slip about .
27 I mean once you 've got in .
28 because I mean once you 've taken all the pictures down , I think it did need it
29 achieve but I do n't think they ever will , that I mean once you start you , you
30 there 's other things you can do though , like for example , I mean once you 've identified
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