Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] once [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These might be to : ‘ go swimming for thirty minutes after work once a week ’ , ‘ use the stairs rather than the lift ’ , ‘ walk to the restaurant instead of driving ’ . |
| 2 | Whilst a number of considerations may limit the resort to force majeure , there is a sufficiency of means once the will to use them is present . |
| 3 | They had a good diet of bread , margarine , jam and bacon for breakfast , roast beef , potatoes and greens , and rice pudding for lunch , and bread and jam for tea with cake once a week . |
| 4 | I had Darren home for weekends once a month . |
| 5 | During her last year she joined the Voluntary Service Unit and visited an old lady in Sevenoaks once a week . |
| 6 | Cathryn used to work with the Social Work Department in Craigmillar , but took up a fixed term post at Haddington once the decision was taken to go on tour . |
| 7 | The Group holds afternoon meetings in London once a term . |
| 8 | A walk before breakfast every day or exercise done after work every day — say a fifteen-minute run , a game of tennis or another walk — is very much better for you than a game of rugby once a week and nothing else . |
| 9 | The signatories agreed to exercise " voluntary self-restraint " in the use of force once a Supreme National Council ( SNC ) of prominent Cambodians had been formed . |
| 10 | A past employer of mine used to give himself a gourmet week at home once a year . |
| 11 | Art could not speak , he had become so used to meeting Daphne for lunch once a week , it was part of his life , he felt shocked , strange , bereft . |
| 12 | ‘ He gets a remittance from England once every three months . |
| 13 | The dock strike failed because the transport workers did not have the strength to defend the labour monopoly enjoyed by registered dockers in a number of ports once the Government removed its statutory underpinning . |
| 14 | En route the 41 club exchanges news and views and puts the world to rights once a day before we take our individual paths into the isolation of a busy office . |
| 15 | This was n't even by the rusty old tramp which brought stores to Danu once a month , but on a smaller wooden vessel , captained by a cut-throat old Bugi from Makassar , whose bilge pumps were perpetually squirting a drooping arc of water from the sides . |
| 16 | Beryl 's love of movement and dance started at a very early age when she and her older sisters attended a local School of Dance once a week . |
| 17 | It was especially popular in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the whole of fashionable society decamped from London to Bath once a year to take the waters and to see and be seen . |
| 18 | They enjoy being at home together : she attends keep-fit classes and meets her former colleagues for coffee once a fortnight , while Tom spends more time on gardening and playing whist . |
| 19 | You will also be asked to sign a Certificate of Deduction of Tax once a year confirming that you are a UK taxpayer . |
| 20 | In 11 pages , such curves are explained and illustrated , and a practical systematic method given for designing a set of strings once the tension curve is chosen . |
| 21 | It seems the parish priest at Upton has a servant who visits his brother 's family in Preston once a week , and that night this fellow walked the road from Upton to Preston along with Aldhelm , who works at the demesne , and lives in the neighbouring village . |
| 22 | However Troilus shows little interest in Cressida once the morning light has revealed her features and their bed ; and she seems to realise this : |
| 23 | Cincom Systems ( UK ) Ltd is looking for beta testers for the Windows NT version of Supra Server : the relational database is already up and running on the iAPX-86 , R-series and Alpha versions of NT and it will available for £800 per user once the operating system ships . |
| 24 | In fact we will be shown extracts from Gloucester v Bath once the programme gets going : but that is not quite the same thing . |