Example sentences of "[vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Kate was n't particularly fanciful , but Dara reminded her of a black panther she 'd seen once in a zoo . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But these are stars of the first order , which are barely produced once in a hundred years . |
| 8 | Remembering where Tweed had stayed once during a desperate operation in the past . |
| 9 | Richard Baxter only preached once on a Sunday . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When the members of a sample are observed once at a single point of time , the study is termed cross-sectional . |
| 12 | The experience of being molested once as a child and then a man jumping in her car at 21 yrs and her running away remained with her so that she has persistent fear of being attacked and the sense of someone being behind her . |
| 13 | Marathon leader , Britain 's Francis Tuthill was more cautious but still spun the Porsche twice and was passed once on a stage by second-placed Australian Ian Vaughan ( Ford Falcon ) . |
| 14 | Graham Sharpe organiser says there is nowhere else in the world where two legs can race against four and pick up fourteen thousand pounds in prize money if they win … he explains that the horse has been beaten once by a mountain bike three years ago but they 've never been able to work out a winning formula |
| 15 | But if they are described in stories , then surely they must have lived once upon a time ? ’ |