Example sentences of "once [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I painted the fire once as an allegory . |
| 2 | I know because I was one , once as an investigator . |
| 3 | The Missa Papae Marcelli of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ( C. 1525–1594 ) , then master of the chapel at St. Maria Maggiore at Rome , may well date from this time and have been accepted at once as an embodiment of the Tridentine ideal but there is no evidence that it was the unique exemplar of the legend . |
| 4 | She had seen a horror film once about an archaeologist in Egypt . |
| 5 | Perhaps you 'd like to stick around and watch this happening because I remember you subbing once for an etching lesson . |
| 6 | In addition one victim in two is likely to be victimised at least once of an offence of a different kind . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , I fell almost at once into an exhausted sleep . |
| 8 | Strikes by Doherty ‘ s National Union of Operative Spinners , and in the coal fields , greatly alarmed Peel , at the Home Office ; and , in what were to be the dying days of the Tory administration , he looked unsuccessfully for a legal answer to what he called ‘ the constitution and acts of a confederacy calculated in its immediate effects to disturb the peace of the manufacturing districts , and capable , if allowed to gain strength and consistency , of being converted at once into an open resistance to the law . ’ |
| 9 | I was plunged at once into an immediate round of familiarisation of completely new and strange devices that were the work-a-day tools of Bomber Command . |
| 10 | That dusty old painting on the wall could well be worth a small fortune once inside an auction house . |
| 11 | Once inside an animal , cell viruses usually disintegrate into separated protein molecules and genetic material ( C ) . |
| 12 | Supply new information gradually , not all at once in an overwhelming chunk . |
| 13 | I mentioned her once in an interview and Perry began to cry . |
| 14 | He made detours and slept in the open , ‘ once in an abandoned wagon , which was white with frost the next morning . ’ |
| 15 | It was thought they must have been conferred all at once in an act of divine creation . |
| 16 | Once in an agency , researchers must realize that the end product of their job is not research in itself , but advertising , and they must be genuinely interested in that . |
| 17 | Referring to Figure 5.7 again , a part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node and box stored at second and subsequent occurrences . |
| 18 | A part that occurs more than once in an assembly only has its new node shown at subsequent entries . |
| 19 | She was like the photographs of Hollywood film stars that she had seen once in an old copy of Picturegoer . |
| 20 | Her old white dress and purple shawl She bought once from an ancient stall . |
| 21 | He had warned the Assistant Commissioner , McPhee , and together they would ensure that for the next two or three days the City was flooded with agents who would alert them at once to an assembly . |
| 22 | For example , a small boy was seen once by an educational psychologist at his parents ' request on a problem of which hand he should write with . |
| 23 | A decrease in PV has been curiously " rewarded " more than once by an increase in PS . |
| 24 | Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] . |