Example sentences of "but once he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once 'e 's come round we talk about the good old days , an' how they 're a complete blank . |
| 2 | Nigel Vaughan did a passable impersonation of Liam Brady and Peter Reid for 35 minutes , but once he tired the home attacks lost any semblance of variety . |
| 3 | It could be difficult persuading Eyre to undertake the direction of a play , but once he had committed himself his absorption was total . |
| 4 | I felt very down , but once he began to need my milk it seemed worthwhile and I gradually began to produce a little more at each pumping . |
| 5 | Napoleon III was mild and gentle in his manner and in his dealings with people , but once he had made up his mind , he was inflexible and he was resolved to marry Eugénie . |
| 6 | Neil Macleod , eleventh chief of the Assynt Macleod 's , offered the fugitive refuge at Ardvreck , his castle in the loch ; but once he had Montrose safely under his roof , Macleod imprisoned him in the castle dungeon . |
| 7 | But once he reached Stowey the Coleridges greeted him warmly at Lime Street , where the cottage had gained another new resident only a week before : on 14 May , Sara had been ‘ safely delivered of a fine boy ’ , the child being given the name Berkeley in honour of the philosopher , for whom Coleridge was developing a great admiration . |
| 8 | But once he gets his hands all oiled up , he 's a whizz at refreshing your players ' tired muscles . |
| 9 | But once he is used to it , he will trust his right , which he did often enough against Coventry . ’ |
| 10 | Her mother might pose a bit of a problem , but once he had seen Liza he could , maybe , win the old girl round . |
| 11 | But once he is dead Emeth meets Aslan and falls at his feet in instinctive adoration , as in terror , ‘ for the Lion … will know that I have served Tash all my days and not him ’ . |
| 12 | Darren had always been a good and well-behaved boy but once he had returned home he had been waking repeatedly in the night and been difficult to manage in the day . |
| 13 | She stood at the back of the dingy room , the child close by her side , and she listened to the clerk calling out the offences — soliciting was a common phrase , but once he said ‘ Procuring of men ’ — and she noticed that the Justice hardly raised his head : ‘ One pound or one month . |
| 14 | But once he started descending , it was a different matter entirely . |
| 15 | He had been one of the most energetic scourges of this sceptic isle , but once he was victim of a fatwah , he became an outspoken defender of the freedoms that are available in British cultural life . |
| 16 | The structure of Angevin rule in Aquitaine had been severely shaken by the Young King 's intervention , but once he was gone it was not difficult to pick up the pieces . |
| 17 | They had listened meekly , shamed by his anger and , like children , trying to think of ways to please him ; but once he had left the billiard room he knew that the feuds would start once more to germinate . |
| 18 | no , no , but once he 's taken it and then he 's come round and erm he realizes what it 's , what he 's done , yeah . |
| 19 | He bargained hard and was stubborn , but once he was persuaded and agreed , he usually stuck by his word . |
| 20 | His ‘ devils ’ prepare for him notes of his material but once he has gone into court he has to take entire responsibility on his own shoulders . ’ |
| 21 | The Grand Vizier Hursid Pasha , who entered Belgrade in late October 1813 , was powerless to stop this holocaust , but once he was able to assert his authority he attempted to conciliate the Serbs . |
| 22 | The causeway commanded a view of all this region of the moor , but once he had jumped down and was in the shallow bowl of Goughdale , he could see nothing except the remains of surface workings and the louring slopes of Big Allen . |
| 23 | He had no official status and no powers of arrest , but once he 'd identified Alina then the two officers along with him would have been able to detain her on immigration charges . |
| 24 | Artai was young , but once he chose a wife — an honour for which there would be contenders enough — reasons for breaking her betrothal might be easy enough to find . |
| 25 | It was — God knows — never easy to persuade him to meet me ; but once he was there … |
| 26 | ‘ But once he told me that he was n't about to change and that he was likely to be a lifetime philanderer , I saw red and thought , ‘ Screw you ! |
| 27 | It was not easy , even for a German captain , to intervene at this stage , but once he had been subjected to a long discussion and much persuasion , he contacted the SS in Tabiano and managed to have us set free . |
| 28 | But once he or she takes that first drink in any day there is no prediction of when that drinking bout will stop . |
| 29 | Although it was very rough at first , but I got used with it even when the seasickness caught me up going round the top of the highland , but once he was away from that and er I was n't a drinker in these days but some old man says to me , er before you go to a meal , he says , take a drop of brandy . |
| 30 | He 'd never seen his mother or his father reading it , but once he had opened it himself . |