Example sentences of "once [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The weather was good , scores were high on the day , but no-one could live with the excellent golf from Dermot who kept a steady throughout , pausing only once for a ‘ chuckle ’ as colleague Kevin O'Leary pitched a 9-Iron into the nearby water hazard , albeit the Shannon . |
| 32 | I joined the A T C once for a couple of months . |
| 33 | Perhaps you 'd like to stick around and watch this happening because I remember you subbing once for an etching lesson . |
| 34 | He seldom apologised in a tough league , but felt moved to once after a particularly loud , prolonged and slanderous outburst against a small , bespectacled umpire who had turned down an appeal : ‘ Sorry , umpire . |
| 35 | He knew at once of a house to let for a whole year , the owners being abroad and failing to let it before they left last month and seeing my condition he took pity and had the caretaker prevailed upon to come to me at his premises . |
| 36 | Dexter remembered the name and vintage from a description Blanche had reluctantly given him once of a feast at her old Cambridge college . |
| 37 | In addition one victim in two is likely to be victimised at least once of an offence of a different kind . |
| 38 | Negative statements such as ‘ I do n't know how you can work with them ’ or ‘ they do n't belong here — this is a college ’ , which were once like a red rag to a bull to me , no longer insult or injure as they did . |
| 39 | The former branch of this first dichotomy takes written language at once into a mode which speakers seldom use . |
| 40 | ( x ) Put the slide at once into a Coplin jar filled with the same fixative and leave for at least 20 min . |
| 41 | They lit the candles they had brought and made their way along a passage which led out of the chamber , gazing wordlessly — he could n't remember that they had spoken at all while in there — at the arched limestone walls , at the tunnels that from time to time branched from this central artery , once into a wide gallery whose egress had been blocked by a fall of stone . |
| 42 | His touch is sure from the start ; Ravel 's L'Enfant et les Sortileges he paces beautifully , and by making his fantastic characters tiny beside a huge , solid door , takes us at once into a child 's world to be thrilled and frightened . |
| 43 | Nonetheless , I fell almost at once into an exhausted sleep . |
| 44 | Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’ |
| 45 | I was plunged at once into an immediate round of familiarisation of completely new and strange devices that were the work-a-day tools of Bomber Command . |
| 46 | To demonstrate that , he is happy to show off work on new City dealer boards devised in Belfast that allow a foreign exchange trader or the like to listen in to some 20 phone conversations at once via a sophisticated touch screen . |
| 47 | His face has appeared regularly in newspapers since his arrest , once under a tabloid headline which screamed ‘ Blue Arrow rogues guilty ’ . |
| 48 | The Carabinieri chief had left at once with a promise of finding the man within the hour , to which he added , sotto voce , a pledge to get the truth out of him by whatever methods might be necessary . |
| 49 | I was once with a student who responded with a stall recovery when the glider hit some turbulence on the final approach . |
| 50 | I did it once with a Kraut I met on Piccadilly Underground . |
| 51 | I have only ever been there once with a family related to me ; I suppose they are my second cousins , Norman and Lizzie Bayles , who farmed at Stoop Hill , a small place just outside of Mickleton . |
| 52 | Prove that you can keep everything going at once with a crazy set of juggling balls — guaranteed fun after Christmas lunch ! |
| 53 | The writer was once with a small London bookseller who unblushingly pointed out a volume of Arctic travel which he was just about to despatch for the full treatment of glaciers , polar bears and seals . |
| 54 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 55 | Push needles back ALL AT ONCE with a long ruler or similar , until the heads are held by the fabric . |
| 56 | I remembered a night by the river when daylight faded , darkness fell and the moon rose at once with a new light and I had thought I understood everything and that everything was good . |
| 57 | Serve at once with a green salad . |
| 58 | The sentiment backfired at once with a sharp reminder of the hopelessness of her own dreams . |
| 59 | Take out of the oven and serve at once with a crunchy fresh salad . |
| 60 | I delighted them once with a return invitation to dine at The Pightle . |