Example sentences of "once [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Amin , my friend , did you not mention once that you had a relative in the Immigration Service here ? ’ he asked him . |
| 32 | She told me once that Spiritualists ate sweets during the service . |
| 33 | Ruth saw at once that her grandfather was not in the room , but she took it for granted that by some miracle he had improved enough to get upstairs and was resting in bed . |
| 34 | Ruth knew at once that she had seen one of the men before . |
| 35 | Mrs Patten was waiting with a grave face , and he could tell at once that she knew . |
| 36 | She looked at them indulgently , saw at once that they were nothing notable , and said to him straight away that they would not do . |
| 37 | Most of us BURMANS who heard your slimy , slippery and soft propaganda talk — knew at once that your ‘ move ’ was a ‘ STOOP TO CONQUER ’ stunt . |
| 38 | Celia could see at once that the place had distinct possibilities . |
| 39 | Freddie had never liked her , but he knew at once that she might be the one person who could give him valuable assistance with his research . |
| 40 | I could see at once that they had all had a skinful . |
| 41 | He 'd told them once that he 'd been married . |
| 42 | He knew well enough , because once that had been his world too . |
| 43 | Angela said : ‘ We have made it clear more than once that this matter could be sorted out if they would just sit down and talk , family to family . |
| 44 | I remember once that I could not and with one swoop she was upon me — over the head , down the back , on my bare legs , until in agony and terror I ran for the house screaming for my father . |
| 45 | I 'm not sure exactly where they 're stored , but Tiare told me once that her father ’ — that sounded an odd description of Gauguin — ‘ had given her mother instructions on how to protect them . |
| 46 | Without waiting , I asked her , ‘ You told me once that you 'd seen Sister Kenny treat a polio patient . ’ |
| 47 | She did n't seem surprised to see him sitting there still in his cloak and obviously only just returned from Mass , and he knew at once that she had been told about the murders . |
| 48 | ‘ Nurse Dungarvan , why did you not explain at once that Mr Leland was seeing a patient in here ? ’ |
| 49 | Millie took in at once that Mrs Quinton was a nervous lady and that she was n't very old ; in fact , she looked young . |
| 50 | On the last day they met , a Friday , Peter realized at once that something was wrong with Kate . |
| 51 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 52 | I did hear once that he had threatened his father , but I do not know if this is true , and they , poor souls , never said a word against him . ’ |
| 53 | It may be said at once that these questions can not be answered with complete certainty . |
| 54 | Anyone with Daemon Lore , Rune Lore or Theology will know at once that this room is used for Daemon summoning . |
| 55 | The psychiatrist Ronald Laing suggested once that ‘ to be a success in our society one has to learn to dream of failure ’ . |
| 56 | Two men stood there and she recognised at once that they were CID . |
| 57 | Elizabethan audiences would presumably have spotted at once that he was ‘ putting on the style ’ with his phrases cobbled together out of distant memories of Kyd , Marlowe , and Greene . |
| 58 | The record of this parliament is incomplete , but the recollection of contemporaries seems unequivocal , and in later , more difficult , circumstances parliament was to be reminded more than once that it had given its assent to the war . |
| 59 | So take notice at once that only its CD remastering is new . |
| 60 | It must be said at once that nothing remotely as strong as this is required by the proposition that to explain an event is to find its cause . |