Example sentences of "once [pron] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've given me an elbow crutch , and I can make the journey perfectly well now , if I thought the blasted train would stay on the lines , but there 's not much I could do once I got to Moila , is there , if I ca n't walk ? |
| 2 | When I loaded in the game I hit fire , and once I got to the end of the screen I went to enter a hole that is there but I could n't . |
| 3 | But once I got to the hospital and after the operation the doctor reassured me it was a straightforward and took forty-five minutes . |
| 4 | I made few friends , but once I adapted to this life I do not think I was particularly unhappy . |
| 5 | ‘ I believed in what I was doing , ’ he told the lawyers , smarting at the implication that maybe he did n't ; ‘ Once I talked to Ollie the first or second time , man I believed . ’ |
| 6 | I glanced up at Granny 's picture and for once she seemed to be smiling . |
| 7 | ‘ We were sticking our necks out further and further but once we got to the South Col we had the same chance to get to the top as if we had 20 Sherpas helping and a brick-built house up there , ’ said Harry . |
| 8 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 9 | I do n't think he minded , for once he said to me , ‘ You ca n't do a job like mine unless you 're fascinated by it ’ , and I was n't . |
| 10 | At once he ran to the house and began scratching at the door . |
| 11 | So undeserving of it was Jacob , that we might have accused God then of arbitrary favour , worse , of siding with the oppressor instead of the oppressed , as once he seemed to side with Sarah and Abraham against Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 12 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |