Example sentences of "once as a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scored once as a two-year-old , in his final outing of five . |
| 2 | Baynoun ran only once as a four-year-old ( finishing fourth in the John Porter Stakes ) before being exported to the USA . |
| 3 | ‘ I remember she used to tell me stories of a wonderful place where she 'd had a job once as a lady 's maid . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He only won once as a novice but was very consistent . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But a German I shall never be you do it once as a penance and that 's it . |
| 9 | Of course , it was hailed at once as a magic square — as a sign that supernatural powers were at work in the world . |
| 10 | You are to shoot twice : once as a warning ; the second time , make sure you kill whoever it is . ’ |
| 11 | I heard him refer to the Danuese as ‘ natives ’ and myself once as a ‘ Chinaman ’ . |
| 12 | She 'd stayed here once as a child with cousins but could really recall very little . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It 's some once as a customer you can do it later stage . |
| 17 | However , I seem to remember Mad Carew aptly described him once as a ‘ block of flats ’ . |
| 18 | I painted the fire once as an allegory . |
| 19 | I know because I was one , once as an investigator . |
| 20 | 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 . |