Example sentences of "once on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Baxter only preached once on a Sunday . |
| 2 | Another beautiful volume was The Rosary by Florence M. Barclay which is a story intertwined with a song which I heard once on a record sung by Paul Robeson . |
| 3 | Never begin filling in the real form until you have practised at least once on a photocopy . |
| 4 | Then he remembered a woman he 'd met once on a train , she was singing hymns to the window , he 'd been embarrassed at first , half her fringe was missing as if someone had taken a bite out of it , only he knew she 'd done it because she caught him staring and laughed and said , ‘ I always cut it when I 'm loaded , ’ and he remembered something about a house , and because there was nothing left to cling to , because it was the only piece of wreckage left afloat , he remembered how to get there too , it was either remember or die . |
| 5 | And I said , ‘ I know why you picked the name Roger Short , because Shorty Rogers did an album once on a label he was n't supposed to , and changed his name from Shorty Rogers to Roger Short . ’ |
| 6 | This figure will be inflated by those who have attended more than once on a Sunday , but , provided that church-going habits do not change , you will still have an accurate trend measure over a number of years , which is our primary interest . |
| 7 | After all , the top of the table that was once on a line with our chin now reaches only to our thighs . |
| 8 | In regga a producer frequently utilises the same backing track for several different vocals , but only Steely & Clevie would dare let them all play at once on a dub , allowing several different melodies to fight it out for dominance of a different rhythm . |
| 9 | This ability to inflict several wounds at once on a large target does , however , make the mortar extremely useful against big monsters . |
| 10 | After the failure of The Family Reunion his first instinct was to start work at once on a new play which would avoid the failures of the earlier one . |
| 11 | I did this walk once on a bright June day with Pat and Bill the dog . |
| 12 | They met once on a date , nine years ago , and again when she was the make-up artist on Bad Influence , in 1988 . |
| 13 | Once on a committee , a backbencher is relatively safe and select committees have been known to reject government suggestions as to suitable subjects and go their own way . |
| 14 | And never once on a Sunday morning did that man fail to get up and cook our breakfast and polish our shoes , so that we 'd go smart and good to Sunday School . |
| 15 | Once on a hilltop the trees broke , and we looked back and saw a vast red light on the horizon . |
| 16 | Marathon leader , Britain 's Francis Tuthill was more cautious but still spun the Porsche twice and was passed once on a stage by second-placed Australian Ian Vaughan ( Ford Falcon ) . |
| 17 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 18 | He drank with Brendan Bracken , the red-haired Irishman who many thought was Churchill 's bastard , and slept more than once on a settee in the great man 's flat in Morpeth Mansions when they had all drunk too much whisky — although never while Churchill was in town . |
| 19 | For although the two stood with their heads for once on a level pegging , the size of their shadows differed to no small degree . |