Example sentences of "once [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot had worn hers once during a practice . |
| 2 | Remembering where Tweed had stayed once during a desperate operation in the past . |
| 3 | AN ORGY of steam traction comes to Dorset on the weekend of September 19 and 20 with history being made as six locomotives steam at once during a special fund-raising Grand Steam Gala — the most locos ever seen in the Isle of Purbeck . |
| 4 | If PF1/4 is pressed more than once during a single LIFESPAN log on session , all the requests will be directed to one copy of FORM.LST , which can then be printed after you have returned to VMS . |
| 5 | The entire class at DRAYTON were all laughing at once during a broomstick session in NATIONAL SMILE WEEK , GRINNING FROM EAR TO EAR . |
| 6 | He scored once as a two-year-old , in his final outing of five . |
| 7 | Baynoun ran only once as a four-year-old ( finishing fourth in the John Porter Stakes ) before being exported to the USA . |
| 8 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He only won once as a novice but was very consistent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But a German I shall never be you do it once as a penance and that 's it . |
| 14 | Of course , it was hailed at once as a magic square — as a sign that supernatural powers were at work in the world . |
| 15 | You are to shoot twice : once as a warning ; the second time , make sure you kill whoever it is . ’ |
| 16 | I heard him refer to the Danuese as ‘ natives ’ and myself once as a ‘ Chinaman ’ . |
| 17 | She 'd stayed here once as a child with cousins but could really recall very little . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It 's some once as a customer you can do it later stage . |
| 22 | However , I seem to remember Mad Carew aptly described him once as a ‘ block of flats ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ He came back once for a check . |
| 24 | When he asked once for a volunteer bugler , a particularly blackguardly fellow stepped forward . |
| 25 | ‘ Miss Maxwell was perfectly normal in her behaviour at school — except that she was perhaps too much the model student — but every so often she would disappear , usually for about three days , once for a whole week . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The weather was good , scores were high on the day , but no-one could live with the excellent golf from Dermot who kept a steady throughout , pausing only once for a ‘ chuckle ’ as colleague Kevin O'Leary pitched a 9-Iron into the nearby water hazard , albeit the Shannon . |
| 28 | I joined the A T C once for a couple of months . |
| 29 | He seldom apologised in a tough league , but felt moved to once after a particularly loud , prolonged and slanderous outburst against a small , bespectacled umpire who had turned down an appeal : ‘ Sorry , umpire . |
| 30 | 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 . |