Example sentences of "[coord] once in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is unfair , for it is a historic city and once in a while something does happen . |
| 2 | And we get songs that people send into the office and once in a while we 'll come up with something that somebody just sends us . |
| 3 | Both dishes may taste scrumptious and once in a while wo n't do you any harm , but foods like that eaten regularly are no basis for a healthy diet . |
| 4 | On two occasions he used the word " Jew " as a pejorative adjective — once in a letter to John Quinn , dated 12 March 1923 , and once in a letter to Ezra Pound , dated 31 October 1917 . |
| 5 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 6 | And once in a while Elvis did dash off on some divine business or other . |
| 7 | And once in the harbour , she can unload all she 's got through the sea-gate . ’ |
| 8 | We walked back together , and once in the hall of the hotel Robins dumped his small bag , shouted , ‘ Mollie ! ’ and at once drained a small glass of her whisky . |
| 9 | It climbs the palm with ease and once in the crest , cuts down with its gigantic pincers the young coconuts on which it feeds . |
| 10 | ‘ — and once in the seventies . |
| 11 | He stopped again and Nuadu , trying to guard his thoughts , certainly trying to shield his eyes , thought : and once in the Dark Ireland , you were lured to the side of the necromancers ! |
| 12 | And once in the nude to annoya . ’ |
| 13 | The principle is that all movements are entered twice , once in the ‘ in ’ or credit side of one account and once in the ‘ out ’ or debit side of a different account . |
| 14 | The principle is that all movements are entered twice , once in the ‘ in ’ or credit side of one account and once in the ‘ out ’ or debit side of a different account . |
| 15 | It was a lot of hard work and a lot of fun , but once in a lifetime was enough , as they themselves had been told by those who had made the 1928 pie . |
| 16 | It 's wickedly fattening , but once in a while … ’ |
| 17 | Property prices and psychoanalysis were mentioned shyly , rather as Rachel might mention sex , but once in the air everyone turned out to be immensely knowledgeable about both , as well as about the contemporary cinema , the wickedness of Thatcher 's government and the perils of current educational reforms . |
| 18 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 19 | Another item that really suffers when seen dry , but once in the tank , wet and covered with a little algae , comes into its own . |
| 20 | But once in the ring , I 've got to be tough . ’ |
| 21 | ( Although in Trob the last word in fact became ‘ a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa , home of the firegods or so it is said . ’ ) . |
| 22 | But once in the bedroom and sitting on the edge of the bed , her arm around her daughter , what could she say ? |