Example sentences of "[verb] once [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first three instruments here are obviously not intended for the serious player but for the beginner , or to be strummed once in a while as a second or third instrument . |
| 2 | David Batty used once upon a time to write an agony column in rec.sport.soccer . |
| 3 | This kind of thing happens once in a lifetime . |
| 4 | ‘ There was instantly that feeling between us that probably happens once in a million . |
| 5 | Where in the 1930s the mother was given solemn warnings as to what would happen if she disobeyed the rules , the mode now is to refer her , with continual reassurances however , to what might possibly result from some mistaken handlings : ‘ Here 's what happens once in a while when the needs of the child are n't recognized ’ ( Spock , 1946 , chapter on ‘ The Two Year Old ’ ) . |
| 6 | You , you did give once to a group a few years ago . |
| 7 | Michael Swinton watched her in silence as he had watched her before , only proffering as he had done once before a handkerchief which he had plainly also used as a paint rag . |
| 8 | He scored once as a two-year-old , in his final outing of five . |
| 9 | Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested . |
| 10 | Kate was n't particularly fanciful , but Dara reminded her of a black panther she 'd seen once in a zoo . |
| 11 | She was like the photographs of Hollywood film stars that she had seen once in an old copy of Picturegoer . |
| 12 | For example , a small boy was seen once by an educational psychologist at his parents ' request on a problem of which hand he should write with . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 15 | And I believe we met once at a Stock Exchange luncheon . " |
| 16 | They met once on a date , nine years ago , and again when she was the make-up artist on Bad Influence , in 1988 . |
| 17 | What clouds the issue is that I have caught hundreds of bream , of all sizes , and from a variety of waters , when the surface of the water has not been broken once by a fish . |
| 18 | I mean once upon a time nothing was , but I 've spent two and a half thousand pound if not more since I 've been off work . |
| 19 | ‘ Two n't hurt the lad to help once in a while . |
| 20 | A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners . |
| 21 | But these are stars of the first order , which are barely produced once in a hundred years . |
| 22 | Perhaps you 'd like to stick around and watch this happening because I remember you subbing once for an etching lesson . |
| 23 | Every now and again you 're going to get exceptional circumstances and these things happen once in a while . |
| 24 | Remembering where Tweed had stayed once during a desperate operation in the past . |
| 25 | Another beautiful volume was The Rosary by Florence M. Barclay which is a story intertwined with a song which I heard once on a record sung by Paul Robeson . |
| 26 | Richard Baxter only preached once on a Sunday . |
| 27 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 28 | Everyone gets once in a while his downs , his depressive periods . |
| 29 | I saw it happen once to a dear old woman who went around a group of people , gently offering her book , and everyone signed except one . |
| 30 | Those who play with fire , however archly , must expect to get their fingers burnt once in a while , and when ironic lyrics are allied to questionable public utterances and clearly provocative imagery , then it is reasonable to question the man 's motives and intentions . |