Example sentences of "once that " in BNC.

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1 I knew the face and knew at once that we had been intimate , but I had no idea who she was .
2 She knew all at once that the measured time , the false normality of banter , everything led to an end she dreaded .
3 Iain and Alastair Logan had agreed at once that Alastair must go into hiding .
4 I know at once that I 've made a fool of myself .
5 My mother told me once that on November the fifth someone in the audience had thrown a firework at the screen and the people in the film jumped .
6 I think he did say to me once that he was very disturbed at how much coke David was doing , and it got to the point where he did n't hide it in front of DeFries , whereas he did , for quite a while , at first .
7 I could see at once that my parents and Aunt Lyallie had taken to him .
8 But I saw at once that this was not what Mrs Girdlestone wanted to hear .
9 One young woman , Lucy , told how sad she felt that her mother had very low self-esteem , believed she was unattractive and overweight — even said once that there was nothing she could do or be that Lucy and her sisters ‘ could n't do or be better ’ , which made Lucy feel envied and forced into competition with her mother , when she did n't want to be .
10 I heard once that you wanted to conduct Shostakovich 's Sixth Symphony but you thought Mravinsky had done it so well you would n't touch it .
11 This appalled Mrs Browning , who said at once that it was God using her as an instrument and that Wilson should have had more faith .
12 You might answer , ‘ Given the map in Figure 10 , I can see at once that the dotted line is the best route . ’
13 The end result is an animal that looks very much like some kinds of oyster , although a glance at the internal feeding structures shows at once that they are brachiopods , unrelated to the bivalves they superficially resemble .
14 He wrote to his mother and told his brother about the baby ; he said more than once that he intended to marry Jeanne .
15 How did he know at once that we were guilty , she wondered later , that we were , all of us , conspirators ?
16 The box was always somewhere on the floor by his bed , and was tied up with a bow , as if it was a precious parcel or a gift intended for a special person ; the bow was tied from a length of scarlet nylon ribbon which Boy had seen in the dustbin outside a florist 's , and had stolen , and taken home and ironed , having sensed at once that its splendid colour made it suitable for the tying up of this very special box .
17 In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers .
18 Lord Darlington called me into his study , and I could see at once that he was in a state of some agitation .
19 Turning swiftly , she saw at once that the Brownie was on the forbidden side of the fence .
20 She looked at the tyre and saw at once that even if there had been someone about who could have helped her , the tyre could n't be mended on the spot-there was a long split in the outer cover .
21 Virginia knew at once that the witch had seen her , for she stopped , as if in surprise , and then stared at her .
22 Penny knew at once that it was her lost budgerigar .
23 Poole , as one who had already thought of emigrating to America , listened sympathetically ; but he saw at once that the scheme could never succeed , remarking to a friend that however perfectible human nature might be , it was ‘ not yet perfect enough ’ for Pantisocracy .
24 ‘ You told me once that going to a Workhouse was simply exchanging one prison for another .
25 I could tell at once that he was dead …
26 It will be seen at once that these statements are more specific and precise than aims , which raises an important question .
27 I knew at once that something was wrong .
28 Looking at them he knew at once that his long search was over .
29 She said : ‘ I thought you said once that you found Caroline sexually cold . ’
30 Daisy wished just for once that Drew could see her when she was n't looking awful .
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