Example sentences of "once [pron] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once everyone had drunk a mug of hot strong tea , he sent his own men out to feed and check the stock which was kept down at Cherry Tree Farm . |
| 2 | Once everyone had disembarked , the sergeant-major warned them to prepare for a fifteen-mile route-march . |
| 3 | Once everyone had claimed their rooms and strewn their possessions around to secure occupancy , Star Eye scattered into the streets , leaving Leila and Ari alone with Nathan . |
| 4 | Once someone had pointed it out to me , together with its next door neighbour , as an example of a building style peculiar to this little area of Surrey . |
| 5 | Once someone has accepted an offer and become a council tenant , local authority management policies come to be an important aspect of their lives . |
| 6 | Once someone has used a particular credit type , they are very likely to buy other things in the same way . |
| 7 | Once someone has established themselves as being the right sort of chap , then their name crops up time and again . |
| 8 | Once I had to push him away and say : ‘ Stop it ! ’ |
| 9 | Once I had created the spray shape that I wanted , I tied the red ribbon that had accompanied the bouquet into a small flat bow , to minimise its lumpiness , and added it to the design . |
| 10 | Once I had begun to reap the benefits from my new system , I decided to enlarge on it and make it work even harder for me . |
| 11 | Once I had written these letters , I then applied to the Department that was officially responsible for serving the Diplomatic Corps . |
| 12 | It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west . |
| 13 | Once I had seen a rabbit snare fixed between the palings of a fence , and now my mind 's eye saw a rabbit hopping slowly towards this remembered snare as if hypnotized , and the rabbit was me . |
| 14 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 15 | They exclaimed and condoled , with — once I had assured them that nothing serious had happened to my brother — a rather charming mixture of sympathy for me and pleasure in the excitement of the news . |
| 16 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
| 17 | Once I had said my thanks and farewells to William and to the immense policeman who had silently accompanied us throughout the afternoon , I headed away down the rutted tracks , rather glad to be back on the road and off back to Panama City . |
| 18 | Once I had desired a world made good and right and pure , as I conceived , by a Liberal statesman benevolent and omnipotent . |
| 19 | ‘ Once I had realized that Tenison , the consulting engineer , was not spelt in the same way as Tennyson , our late-lamented poet Laureate , I had no difficulty . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The general feeling of being on cloud nine once I had completed it has lasted , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ and has provided a very welcome psychological boost . ’ |
| 21 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |
| 22 | Once I had longed to see him . |
| 23 | Once I had established a tub full of white worm , every plant pot in the house was seeded with a small amount of worm and these are occasionally fed with a piece of moist bread . |
| 24 | Once I had unpacked , I set off down the lane to have a look at the Round Tower before dark . |
| 25 | Adrian Scanlon insisted on driving up to the front door , once I had opened the gate . |
| 26 | I did enjoy myself , once I had accustomed myself to the way the Yanks danced . |
| 27 | As usual , once I had put down the wheelbarrow , I had stiffened up and been able to think only of aches and pains . |
| 28 | Once I had got myself unpacked , it was 5pm and the day shift girls from the various departments were coming off-duty , including two of the Met girls , Jean and Marjorie . |
| 29 | Once I had got to grips with how to work the machine I noticed that the harmoniser in the machine did n't appear to work properly : ie. if I set the interval to a major 3rd , the processor would intermittently switch between a major 3rd and a minor 3rd . |
| 30 | Between waking and full consciousness I see clearly that I should never have so casually left the inn once I had got there , taking it for granted I could get back quite simply . |