Example sentences of "and once they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the rosetted marshals at the fête are six , and once they are twelve . |
| 2 | Over the last 20 years people have been buying as opposed to renting and once they own something they want to keep it separate . |
| 3 | Soon the chicks were big enough to be out and about , and once they had left their mother , they began to exhibit her wild characteristics , wandering recklessly far up the fields into territory frequented by foxes . |
| 4 | He could bring people together who would not under normal circumstances converse ; and once they were talking , of course , there was hope . |
| 5 | Jane had not wanted them to stay against their will , and once they were gone , she plunged into work . |
| 6 | And once they started to present their case , many evangelicals accepted their interpretation . |
| 7 | Probably because most of them leave to have families and once they come back they 're that much further behind ’ . |
| 8 | And once they climbed so high they entered the clouds and there was nothing but a great whiteness around them as if the world had been erased by a giant rubber . |
| 9 | And once they are permitted to produce their babies , will they have to accept constant control over the way they care for them ? |
| 10 | The object was to give them a sense of purpose and once they were harnessed to that proposition , they policed themselves , so to speak . |
| 11 | Some people learn on a cheaper second-hand board and once they are sure they want to pursue the sport they buy a modern board on which to progress . |
| 12 | Children are very quick to spot this and will take advantage of the situation — and once they know they can get away with anything , you will lose their respect . |
| 13 | Tim and Butch beat the ferns angrily with their guns as they hunted for her , and once they came so close that Mary 's heart almost stopped beating . |
| 14 | Interviewers must seek out , contact and interview their allotted sub-samples , and once they have been given their tasks they must work relatively independently . |
| 15 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 16 | I produced twelve ! ’ and then of course hubby 's got to do the business on them and once they 're fertilised they re-implant them , maximum six and hope one of them takes . |
| 17 | Soon Alison would know , the Carters would know , everyone would know , and once they knew they would cut me dead . |
| 18 | Squirrels and martins moved in the trees , and once they came almost face to face with a boar . |
| 19 | ‘ His timing was impeccable , and he ended up the hero but you set your own standards and once they are high you have got to keep up with them . |
| 20 | I 've even had some negotiate over their job title , and once they 've got that , conditions and pay do n't seem to matter . |
| 21 | Up at HM Systems Plc in North London , they innocently ran a letter through the thing , and once they had stopped chortling , they rang us to advise that people should stick to calling the new chip the 80586 in any correspondence they give to their secretary unless they 're confident that , in the words of Larry Hart , she 's a broad with a broad , broad mind . |
| 22 | And once they had deluded themselves that the blacks were content , the whites were quite unable to recognise , let alone tackle , the real grievances that caused so many peasant farmers to side with the ‘ boys in the bush ’ . |
| 23 | The hypocrites take , or are given , all , and once they have it , show their real selves . |
| 24 | The other islands followed and had slave majorities by the 1670s , and once they had done so the process was irreversible ; white men could not be persuaded to come to an area where wages were set by the cost of slave labour . |
| 25 | The two women were waiting to cross the busy Jamaica Road , and once they had scurried across between the trams Florrie continued her tale . |
| 26 | And once they were christened , as we might expect , the ‘ Hooligans ’ were understood as an entirely unprecedented and ‘ un-British ’ phenomenon : indeed , we must allow that it was most ingenious of late Victorian England to disown the British Hooligan by giving him an ‘ Irish ’ name . |
| 27 | And once they have spotted you they suddenly disappear among rocks or melt into the vegetation . |
| 28 | In Chalatenango , a training school was opened for women interested in joining the military command , After a six-month course , the women trainees were asked to conduct an army ambush as proof of their military capabilities and once they had passed this test , were then sent to different battalions . |
| 29 | and once they 've shown , if somebody new comes along one of the old hand |
| 30 | But it would need a sixty percent vote on the council , and once they 'd do made the switch , they could n't switch back to a system by thirds for ten years . |