Example sentences of "[adv] once [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baynoun ran only once as a four-year-old ( finishing fourth in the John Porter Stakes ) before being exported to the USA . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Remember , if a PIW links with a previous PIW there may not be any waiting days left to serve because waiting days are served only once in a PIW . |
| 4 | Coventry v Southampton Having just won at Liverpool for the first time , Coventry ought to be in the mood to take Southampton even though the latter have lost only once in a dozen games . |
| 5 | The rules are most useful on formal occasions like weddings , and particularly when they happen only once in a lifetime . |
| 6 | So I have to go up and visit them , but her parents never come down here , only once in a blue moon when they feel like it . |
| 7 | ( 2 ) When the clothing lasts far longer than even the best quality jeans , and costs no more , how will the agents maintain a business based on clothes bought near enough once in a lifetime ? ( 3 ) Is anyone stupid enough to want to wear heavy-duty , fur-lined , withstands-bloody-cold-arctic-conditions clothing in the summer ? |
| 8 | Perhaps once in a film , for a special moment , I might show the whole orchestra , or perhaps at the very end , with the lights down . |
| 9 | He and his falconer go out perhaps once in a week along the ridge towards the Roman road from Shrewsbury . |
| 10 | No , I fucking once upon a time I used to be able to do it . |
| 11 | Even a large ship like this can become claustrophobic if you do n't get away once in a while , ’ said Lindsey . |
| 12 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 13 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |
| 14 | The thing is you only do this probably once in a life time . |
| 15 | Now once upon a time , there was a railway . |
| 16 | One can look back in eighty seven when we had that terrible storm and they said well once in a hundred years and then we had a storm very similar I think it is essential we look |
| 17 | well once in a blue moon do we have a late night ? , not all that late at that |
| 18 | She 'd stayed here once as a child with cousins but could really recall very little . |
| 19 | They only here once in a blue moon . |
| 20 | In addition one victim in two is likely to be victimised at least once of an offence of a different kind . |
| 21 | Never begin filling in the real form until you have practised at least once on a photocopy . |
| 22 | The forked road which every star , perhaps every person , faces at least once in a lifetime lay dead ahead . |
| 23 | Sure I have to , Nellie , for if I did n't give it a redd up at least once in a while he 'd have the place like a right midden . ’ |
| 24 | Indeed , I believe that inklings of this understanding , ‘ Intimations of the Infinite ’ , are experienced by many of us at least once in a lifetime and are available to all if we can simply open our hearts to the inward life which is calling us , but is obscured by the continuous dazzle and activity of our own superficial minds and senses . |
| 25 | It is a twenty-mile drive to Loch Hourn at the end of this road , and twenty back , but it should be done at least once in a lifetime , the scenery being outstanding . |
| 26 | Well keep them in the house , and maybe once in a while , sort of once every two months , just put a couple of drops in maybe Saturday night or Sunday night . |
| 27 | And of course the same thing applied with clothes and shoes , they always inspected the cleansiness and if your shoes had holes in or anything then once in a while there were new ones came in and y you were fitted out . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had played beautifully once upon a time , and even now , although she had been compelled to give it up almost entirely , it was a joy to listen to her . |
| 30 | And never once on a Sunday morning did that man fail to get up and cook our breakfast and polish our shoes , so that we 'd go smart and good to Sunday School . |