Example sentences of "once [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entire class at DRAYTON were all laughing at once during a broomstick session in NATIONAL SMILE WEEK , GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR . |
| 2 | Dot had worn hers once during a practice . |
| 3 | But a German I shall never be you do it once as a penance and that 's it . |
| 4 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 5 | The sanctuary attendants arrested Apollonius at once as a magician and a robber , suspecting that he had tamed the dogs with the intention of stealing the sanctuary treasure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She 'd stayed here once as a child with cousins but could really recall very little . |
| 8 | You are to shoot twice : once as a warning ; the second time , make sure you kill whoever it is . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 10 | It 's some once as a customer you can do it later stage . |
| 11 | Perhaps Isabelle had simply visited the château once as a guest , in the old days , before the Baron became ill , and had kept the postcard and label as souvenirs of a happy day . |
| 12 | By the way , Jamie started 5 matches last season ( was substituted in 3 of them ) and came on once as a substitute ( all in the league ) , but no goals . |
| 13 | He only won once as a novice but was very consistent . |
| 14 | He scored once as a two-year-old , in his final outing of five . |
| 15 | I follow the line of the hedge along the side of the road , ducking once as a car drives past on the road ; its headlights sweep along the hedge above me . |
| 16 | Baynoun ran only once as a four-year-old ( finishing fourth in the John Porter Stakes ) before being exported to the USA . |
| 17 | ‘ He came back once for a check . |
| 18 | I joined the A T C once for a couple of months . |
| 19 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 20 | The widow told me that she went out twice a day — once very early for shopping and once for a walk towards evening — but never where the passeggiata took place . |
| 21 | Dexter remembered the name and vintage from a description Blanche had reluctantly given him once of a feast at her old Cambridge college . |
| 22 | He knew at once of a house to let for a whole year , the owners being abroad and failing to let it before they left last month and seeing my condition he took pity and had the caretaker prevailed upon to come to me at his premises . |
| 23 | ( x ) Put the slide at once into a Coplin jar filled with the same fixative and leave for at least 20 min . |
| 24 | His touch is sure from the start ; Ravel 's L'Enfant et les Sortileges he paces beautifully , and by making his fantastic characters tiny beside a huge , solid door , takes us at once into a child 's world to be thrilled and frightened . |
| 25 | The former branch of this first dichotomy takes written language at once into a mode which speakers seldom use . |
| 26 | I delighted them once with a return invitation to dine at The Pightle . |
| 27 | Erm , I got interviewed on radio once , on , on television once with a friend and they asked , they asked us what we did , and this friend of mine said we were radio mime artists . |
| 28 | The Carabinieri chief had left at once with a promise of finding the man within the hour , to which he added , sotto voce , a pledge to get the truth out of him by whatever methods might be necessary . |
| 29 | I did it once with a Kraut I met on Piccadilly Underground . |
| 30 | But if they go once with a group , they then go a second , and third and fourth times by themselves . |